Professionally produced by HDE Agency, The Great American Barbeque & Beer Festival’s entertainment lineup will be headlined by double platinum recording artists, Smash Mouth. Smash Mouth has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide and are best known for their number one hits, “Walkin’ on the Sun”, “All Star” and for their covers of The [...]
A study in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, says obesity adds more to health care costs than smoking. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic analyzed the additional costs of smoking and obesity among more than 30,000 Mayo Clinic employees and retirees. All had continuous health insurance coverage between 2001 and 2007. The study, [...]
eSOL eCROS Real-Time OS-Based Software Platform eSOL a Japanese embedded software developer, has added superior real-time performance and high reliability to x86-based industrial, medical, and robotics devices. With these enhancements, eSOL customers can accelerate development of applications based on high-end embedded processors including multi-core, with the scalable, multi-profiled real-time operating systems, that are tightly integrated [...]
A growing body of evidence suggests that preconception and prenatal exposure to certain environmental toxins can impact fetal development adversely and lead to potentially long-lasting health effects. However, most reproductive health providers are not trained in environmental health and do not have the tools to counsel patients on this topic. A team of researchers, led [...]
Federal employees ask how cutting their pay, benefits puts Americans back to work The American Federation of Government Employees is launching a nationwide advertising campaign this weekend calling out Republican lawmakers for supporting a plan to pay for the payroll tax relief extension by slashing federal employee wages. The new ads feature three federal employees [...]
The first day of the Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit generated spirited discussions from experts on the future of payments in the United States. The consensus was that modifying the EMV chip will be the foundation necessary to move to the next level of secure and convenient payments, whether in the form of contact, contactless [...]
A nationwide, federally funded study has found that testing a developing fetus’ DNA through chromosomal micro array provides more information about potential disorders than does the standard method of prenatal testing which is to visually examine the chromosomes. The results of the 4,000-plus-participant clinical study are being presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society [...]
Wolfram Alpha LLC announced the immediate availability of Wolfram|Alpha Pro, a new service building on its widely used Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine. “Wolfram|Alpha Pro is a major step forward for Wolfram|Alpha and the concept of computational knowledge.” – Stephen Wolfram Founder & CEO of Wolfram Alpha “It is the single most important development for Wolfram|Alpha [...]
On the surface, it would seem as though the skin condition melasma (commonly referred to as the “mask of pregnancy”) and tattoos would have little in common. However, they both affect a person’s skin, can be quite difficult to treat or remove and, now, dermatologists are discovering new laser therapies which enhance treatment for both [...]
Blue Coat Systems, a company engaged in web security and WAN optimization solutions has added the capacity to scale and optimize encrypted Adobe Flash video in addition to the video delivery capabilities already integrated with Blue Coat® MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances. The MACH5 solution includes a combination of stream-splitting, pre-population and advanced video caching technologies [...]
