Living on a desert island may not even be a mode of escape from Lyme disease because birds can also be a carrier of infected ticks. Dorothy Leland, who is an advocate with the California Lyme Disease Association and has a daughter with the disease used to love the outdoors a lot more. Since her daughter contracted Lyme over three years ago Leland has taken a different perspective on life in the great outdoors.

Ticks that carry the Lyme disease infection, which causes a rash that looks similar to Saturn rings, is a very complex disease to spot, prevent, and cure. Lyme disease associations like lymedisease.org that Leland is a part of aid in the education and prevention of Lyme. Leland says there are three main things one should remember when setting out for an expedition in nature: Be aware, choose spots carefully, and wear repellant.

SEATTLE, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- WatchGuard Worldwide UTM Shipment Growth Leads Entire Industry with Record Setting Pace of 190 Percent for 2007; Leads with 196 Percent UTM Shipment Growth for Western Europe

WatchGuard(R) Technologies, a global leader in extensible network security and connectivity solutions, today announced that it has been confirmed as the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) shipment growth for 2007, leading the industry with a whopping 190.2 percent rate of growth. Additionally, the company was crowned as the leading UTM shipment growth leader for Western Europe, where WatchGuard led the region with 196.4 percent growth.

N. BILLERICA, Massachusetts, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mechanism of Action of Metformin on Insulin Sensitization Poster Wins One of Three Prizes

Seahorse Bioscience, Inc., leaders in real-time measurement of cellular bioenergetics announced today the receipt of The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) poster award at the 16th European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2008) May 14-17, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland.

STOCKHOLM, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish environmental technology company SEKAB has signed an agreement for the supply of bio-ethanol verified for its sustainability with LDC Bioenergia, a Brazilian ethanol and sugar industry leader and part of the French group Louis Dreyfus.

"The agreement safeguards supplies of additional volumes of ethanol verified in its entire production chain for environmental and social sustainability," says Anders Fredriksson, Executive Vice President, SEKAB Biofuels & Chemicals.

"As one of the largest buyers of Brazilian ethanol, we have an important role to play in developing best practice and showing the way to the industry," says Fredriksson.

SAN JOSE, California, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Home Test Toolkit includes virtually every test required for accurate triple play deployment, reducing CAPEX and ensuring a quality installation with a single truck roll.

Sunrise Telecom(R) Incorporated (Pink Sheets: SRTI), a leader in test and measurement solutions for telecom, wireless and cable networks, today announced the addition of VDSL2 test capabilities to its industry-leading Home Test Toolkit (HTT)(TM). Previously available only in North America, this ground-breaking test system is now available worldwide, giving more customers the opportunity to benefit from its powerful test capabilities as they vie for leadership during the transition to VDSL2.

MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- GravityZoo announced today the beginning of the private beta program for MediaZoo, the 1st true Cloud-based music library & player, without the need for a browser.

Marc Vrijhof, GravityZoo co-founder and CEO says, "We're excited to announce the arrival of the MediaZoo private beta. The team has put in a ton of hard work to get us here. Now it's your turn to experience playing your music in the Cloud in a new and unique way."

At Cairo museum, on Queen Hatshepsut’s tomb in Deir el Bahari,it shows the chief Parihou with his wife Ati, Queen of Punt, (an area not still geographically established: Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan?) while they offer gifts to the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut (1516-1481 BC).

A naval expedition to the mysterious land of Punt was undertaken in the summer of Hatshepsut’s eighth year as queen; she sent a fleet of five ships, headed by her Chancellor Senenmet. The Queen of Punt shows a rugged face, gluteal and femoral obesity, hyperlordosis and symmetrical deposits of fat on the trunk, limbs and thighs.

BRISTOL, England, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- MeettheBoss.com, the next generation business-networking tool for financial services executives all over the world, launches on Monday 18 August 2008.

MeettheBoss.com uses the latest Web 2.0 technologies and applications to bring the ease-of-use and interactivity of social networking to the business arena, together with finance sector-specific content from some of the world's leading C-level executives.

Registered users - including senior execs from AXA, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Visa, and Wachovia - can connect with each other quickly and securely.

Research shows that as more scholarly and research journals are available online, researchers are citing fewer of them - and they are primarily newer papers.

There's no question the Internet gives scientists and researchers instant access to a wealth of academic journals, a very good thing, but the impact hadn't been studied until recently. New research in Science says that scholars are actually citing fewer papers in their work, and the papers they do cite tend to be more recent publications. This trend may be limiting the creation of new ideas and theories.

James Evans is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, who focuses on the nature of scholarly research. During a lecture on the influence of private industry money on research, a student instead asked how the growth of the Internet has shaped science. "I didn't have an immediate answer," Evans said.

Humans have long been trying to make the dream of nanoscopic robots come true. It's getting closer each time nanoscience produces components for molecular-scale machines.

One such device is a rotor; a movable component that rotates around an axis. Trying to observe such rotational motion on the molecular scale is an extremely difficult undertaking but Japanese researchers at the Universities of Osaka and Kyoto have met this challenge. As Akira Harada and his team report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they were able to get "snapshots" of individual molecular rotors caught in motion.

As the subject of their study the researchers chose a rotaxane. This is a two-part molecular system: A rod-shaped molecule is threaded by a second, ring-shaped molecule like a cuff while a stopper at the end of the rod prevents the ring from coming off. The researchers attached one end of the rod to a glass support. To observe the rotational motions of the cuff around the sleeve, the scientists attached a fluorescing side chain to the cuff as a probe.