Medicine Technology 🌱 Environment Space Energy Physics Engineering Social Science Earth Science Science
Science 2010-09-28

Tax Resolution Firm Blue Tax Goes Above All the Rest Resolving Tax Problems for Clients with Compassion and Genuine Care

Blue Tax continues to put their clients' needs first as they secure their place as the customer service leaders in the tax resolution industry. Blue Tax's team of Attorneys, Enrolled Agents, and CPAs have been helping taxpayers for years to resolve, manage, and/or end their tax debt. Their one-on-one approach emphasizes the highest quality of success for the client. One extremely satisfied client is Stephanie W. who had a tax liability of $18,000.00. While the account was being negotiated for a resolution, on September 15, 2010, the IRS issued a levy to Stephanie's bank ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-28

Drrop.com is Welcoming Public Testers for Their Web-Based Communication Service Called "Drrop"

Drrop.com has developed a brand-new online communication service called "Drrop." Drrop is in its testing phase and welcoming public testers. http://drrop.com About Drrop Drrop & Wipe You can encounter text messages when you access Drrop. They are text messages called "drrop" and are posted by people around the world. You can only encounter one drrop at a time. By clicking "Wipe" button, you can wipe out current drrop and see the next one. Once you wipe a drrop, you will never see the same drrop again. Like a rain drop hits you only once in its life time, a ...
Read more →
Social Science 2010-09-28

Educators Launch National Movement to Support Banned and Censored Multicultural Education: Ethnic Studies Week October 1-7

Last spring, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed House Bill 2281 banning ethnic studies. Passed in the wake of the draconian anti-immigrant bill SB1070, the education bill specifically targeted the Mexican American Studies Department of the Tucson Unified School District. Ten days later, the Texas State Board of Education passed Social Studies standards that reflect a of right wing fundamentalist Christian agenda. Today the Texas State Education Board is considering a proposal to remove a "pro-Islamic slant" in Texas textbooks. At the same time the Board faces insufficient ...
Read more →
Alert to Arrest in Four Days: Roseville, CA Police Apprehend Convicted Felon Using CrimeDex
Science 2010-09-28

Alert to Arrest in Four Days: Roseville, CA Police Apprehend Convicted Felon Using CrimeDex

Today, 3VR Security, Inc., (http://www.3vr.com/) the leader in Intelligent Surveillance and Search, in partnership with security integrator Surveillance Systems Integration, announced that the Roseville, CA Police Department identified and arrested a convicted felon just four days following the attempted robbery and threatening of a security guard of a major department store using CrimeDex, 3VR's online community of fraud, loss prevention and law enforcement professionals dedicated to stopping crime. "Using CrimeDex, we were able to make a quick arrest on a case that ...
Read more →
Romance Author Cherish D'angelo, aka Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Launches Lancelot's Lady with the Biggest Online Book Tour Ever--115+ Blog Stops in 15 days--Plus She's Giving Away a Kobo eReader!
Science 2010-09-28

Romance Author Cherish D'angelo, aka Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Launches Lancelot's Lady with the Biggest Online Book Tour Ever--115+ Blog Stops in 15 days--Plus She's Giving Away a Kobo eReader!

Get free ebooks and enter for the chance to win a Kobo eReader at the "Cherish the Romance" Virtual Book Tour, which runs September 28 to October 10 and celebrates the launch of the award-winning, contemporary romantic suspense, LANCELOT'S LADY by Cherish D'Angelo. Leave a comment on any blog/site during her tour, with email address, to be entered into the prize draws. You're guaranteed to receive at least 1 free ebook just for doing so. Plus you'll be entered to win a Kobo eReader. Winners will be announced after October 10th. Cherish the Romance Virtual Book Tour ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-28

AfricaBeauties Amps Up Website with Sparkling New Features

A scorching hot summer's day in Florida, a pure white arch decorated with silk and beach roses, two joyful families gathered, and dedicated lovers staring deep into each other's eyes. A familiar scene of vows exchanged except the difference here is that the bride is a gorgeous Nigerian lady and the groom a handsome white guy from Miami. This is the growing trend in America and the world over - that of the interracial marriage. The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in interracial marriages with the latest US Census statistics revealing a threefold higher rate of blacks ...
Read more →
Plackers Sponsors National Fall For Smiles Campaign Promoting Oral Health
Medicine 2010-09-28

Plackers Sponsors National Fall For Smiles Campaign Promoting Oral Health

SAN DIEGO, CA. -- Plackers, a leading brand of consumer oral care products, has partnered with Oral Health America, the nation's leading independent organization dedicated to eliminating oral disease through access, education and advocacy, on the Fall For Smiles program to promote oral health awareness nationwide. Fall For Smiles kicked off on September 1st with the release of the Fall for Smiles public opinion survey, which was commissioned by Oral Health America and sponsored by Plackers and Oral Healthcare Can't Wait. Highlights of the survey indicate that parents ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-27

2010 AAO-HNSF miniseminars: Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

Boston, MA – The 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the largest meeting of ear, nose, and throat doctors in the world, will convene September 26-29, 2010, in Boston, MA. Featuring more than 305 scientific research sessions, 594 posters, and several hundred instruction course hours for attendees, the annual meeting is a unique opportunity for journalists from around the world to cover breaking science and medical news. Reporters will have access to the latest research and clinical advances ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-27

2010 AAO-HNSF new research daily highlights: Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

Boston, MA – The 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the largest meeting of ear, nose, and throat doctors in the world, will convene September 26-29, 2010, in Boston, MA. Featuring more than 305 scientific research sessions, 594 posters, and several hundred instruction course hours for attendees, the annual meeting is a unique opportunity for journalists from around the world to cover breaking science and medical news. Reporters will have access to the latest research and clinical advances ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-27

Light workout: Stanford scientists use optogenetics to effectively stimulate muscle movement in mice

STANFORD, Calif. - Researchers at Stanford University were able to use light to induce normal patterns of muscle contraction, in a study involving bioengineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with special light-sensitive proteins. The new approach allows scientists to more accurately reproduce muscle firing order, making it a valuable research tool. The investigators, from Stanford's Schools of Medicine and of Engineering, also believe this technique could someday spawn practical applications, from restoring movement to limbs paralyzed by stroke or spinal-cord ...
Read more →
Medicine 2010-09-27

Inhibiting cell signaling pathway may improve bone marrow transplant success rate

CINCINNATI – Identification of a molecular communications pathway that influences the mobilization of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells could lead to targeted therapies for improving bone marrow transplant success rates. In a bed-side to bench approach, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report Sept. 26 in Nature Medicine that pharmacological inhibition of a signaling pathway triggered by Egfr (epidermal growth factor receptor) increased the mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells in mice. The finding provides a scientific basis for enhancing ...
Read more →
Researchers convert quantum signals to telecom wavelengths, increase memory times
Technology 2010-09-27

Researchers convert quantum signals to telecom wavelengths, increase memory times

Using optically dense, ultra-cold clouds of rubidium atoms, researchers have made advances in three key elements needed for quantum information systems – including a technique for converting photons carrying quantum data to wavelengths that can be transmitted long distances on optical fiber telecom networks. The developments move quantum information networks – which securely encode information by entangling photons and atoms – closer to a possible prototype system. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology reported the findings Sept. 26 in the journal ...
Read more →
Genetic ancestry: A new look at racial disparities in head and neck cancer
Medicine 2010-09-27

Genetic ancestry: A new look at racial disparities in head and neck cancer

DETROIT – Head and neck cancer outcomes associated with race may be more closely linked to social and behavioral factors than biological differences, especially for African Americans, according to a new Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers found that while those who self-reported to be African American are at greater risk for late stage cancer, there was no correlation between patients' genetic ancestry and cancer stage or survival. In fact, the study shows only 5 percent of patients who self-reported to be African American had more than 95 percent West African ancestry. ...
Read more →
Earth Science 2010-09-27

Pinpointing where volcanic eruptions could strike

A better way to pinpoint where volcanic eruptions are likely to occur has been produced by an international team of geophysicists. Scientists from the universities of Leeds, Purdue, Indiana and Addis Ababa, investigated volcanic activity occurring in the remote Afar desert of Northern Ethiopia between 2005 and 2009. By studying a rare sequence of 13 magmatic events – where hot molten rock was intruded into a crack between the African and Arabian plates – they found that the location of each intrusion was not random. They showed that they were linked because each event ...
Read more →
Medicine 2010-09-27

Nature Nanotechnology paper shows enzyme-controlled movement of DNA polymer through a nanopore

Santa Cruz, CA, USA and Oxford, UK, 27 September 2010: Research published this week in Nature Nanotechnology shows a new method of enzyme-controlled movement of a single strand of DNA through a protein nanopore. The paper, by researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), represents a key step towards nanopore sequencing of DNA strands. The publication describes the observation of single stranded DNA (ssDNA) as it translocates through a protein nanopore, alpha hemolysin (AHL). Movement of the ssDNA was controlled by polymerase-facilitated replication ...
Read more →
Let your fingers do the driving
Science 2010-09-27

Let your fingers do the driving

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 27, 2010 – If drivers are yakking on cell phones and don't hear spoken instructions to turn left or right from a passenger or navigation system, they still can get directions from devices that are mounted on the steering wheel and pull skin on the driver's index fingertips left or right, a University of Utah study found. The researchers say they don't want their results to encourage dangerous and distracted driving by cell phone users. Instead, they hope the study will point to new touch-based directional devices to help motorists and ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-27

Preventive care poses dilemma for emergency departments, Stanford study finds

STANFORD, Calif. - People go to emergency departments when they've broken a leg, been stabbed or otherwise need urgent care. But a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine finds that 90 percent of EDs nationwide also offer preventive-care services. The high prevalence was surprising, said M. Kit Delgado, MD, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford's Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, and it likely stems from less-than-ideal conditions. "It's more evidence that our health-care system is dysfunctional," said Delgado, ...
Read more →
Medicine 2010-09-27

Partners of breast cancer patients are at risk of developing mood disorders

A new analysis finds that men whose partners have breast cancer are at increased risk of developing mood disorders that are so severe that they warrant hospitalization. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that clinicians should address the mental health of cancer patients' loved ones. Diseases can compromise the mental health of not only affected patients but of their closest relatives as well. Partners in particular are at risk because they may feel stressed and may be deprived of emotional, social, ...
Read more →
Medicine 2010-09-27

UM School of Medicine Center for Celiac Research finds rate of celiac disease is growing

Working to solve the puzzle of when people develop celiac disease has led researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Celiac Research to some surprising findings. They have found that the autoimmune disorder is on the rise with evidence of increasing cases in the elderly. An epidemiological study published September 27 in the Annals of Medicine supports both trends—with interesting implications for possible treatment and prevention. "You're never too old to develop celiac disease," says Alessio Fasano, M.D., director of the University of ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-27

High death and disability rates due to fractures in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe

Preliminary findings from an upcoming new report by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) show alarming projections and reveal the poor state of post-fracture care in the Russian Federation and many other countries in the region. The findings were announced today at a press conference in St. Petersburg at the IOF Summit of Eastern European and Central Asian Osteoporosis Patient Societies. Osteoporosis, a disease of the bone which leaves people at increased risk of fracture, is most common in the older population. Population projections for most countries in ...
Read more →
Medicine 2010-09-27

Daycare puts children with lung disease at risk for serious illness

Exposure to common viruses in daycare puts children with a chronic lung condition caused by premature birth at risk for serious respiratory infections, according to a study from Johns Hopkins Children's Center published in the October issue of Pediatrics. The researchers say their findings should prompt pediatricians to monitor their prematurely born patients, regardless of age, for signs of lung disease and to discuss the risks of daycare-acquired infections with the children's parents. These risks, the researchers found, include increased emergency room visits and ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-27

Unique gastroenterology procedure developed in adults shows promise in pediatrics

The use of device-assisted enteroscopy, a technique that allows complete examination of the small bowel, may be just as successful pediatrics as it has been in adult medicine, according to a study from Nationwide Children's Hospital. One of these techniques known as Double-Balloon Enteroscopy (DBE), a procedure readily available in adults, allows doctors to reach parts of the small intestine that cannot be reached using standard endoscopic procedures. Due to access issues and size limitations, DBE is rarely considered an option in pediatrics. As a result, little is known ...
Read more →
Energy 2010-09-27

The Global Coalition against Domestic Violence (GCA-DV)'s plans are highly advanced for the staging of the 2010 Global Domestic Violence Conference to be held at Prince Hotel in KL, Malaysia.

Western Australia's Minister for Child Protection, Community Services and Women's Interests, Hon. Robyn McSweeney is one of the featured speakers who will be speaking about WA's "Safe at Home Program" during the 2010 Global Domestic Violence Conference. Over the last decade, action to address violence against women has become a priority in many countries. However despite these advances, violence against women and girls is a global pandemic. The problem remains universal, with women and girls affected by violence in every region and every country. The year 2010 is an ...
Read more →
Science 2010-09-27

Video Game Characters Come Alive In Downtown Fuquay-Varina- Strafe Gaming Lounge is to Blame

You may be wondering what's happening in downtown Fuquay-Varina toward the end of September. Several iconic video game characters have been seen walking the streets including Mario, Link from Zelda, Lara Croft from Tomb Raider, Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy and many others. Recently the character crew was spotted at the "Taste of Fuquay-Varina" festival on Saturday the 25th as well as Fuquay's GameStop, Fuquay Gun & Gold and many other locations. The characters are in town to help promote a new business opening its door on October 16th, 2010 called Strafe Gaming Lounge. ...
Read more →
Social Science 2010-09-27

Kindergarten Teacher Launches Free Site to Introduce Children to Five Different Languages

A new Web site called Chillola.com is giving parents a fun, safe learning environment where their kids can explore different languages. Chillola.com employs a playful, child-oriented theme to introduce children to five languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. "Chillola.com is designed to give children all over the world the opportunity to explore foreign languages, and learn about different countries, cultures and people," said Tina Jack, a California-based kindergarten teacher who owns the Web site. "Playful illustrations, real-life pictures, native ...
Read more →