Panama City Beach, Florida Voted Number One Spring Break Destination for 2015

Northwest Florida Continues to be “The Spring Break Capital of the World”

Panama City Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 09, 2015

Panama City Beach, Florida has been voted as the number one Spring Break destination by college students.

A recent study, conducted by Collegiate Marketing Group – which manages top Spring Break destination site pcbeachspringbreak.com – polled 5,000 students asking where they plan on heading for Spring Break in March, 2015. Students were asked to compare six popular Spring Break hot spots, including Daytona Beach, FL, South Padre Island, TX, Myrtle Beach, SC, South Beach Miami, FL, Panama City Beach, FL, and Cancun, Mexico (the only non U.S. based destination).

Panama City Beach was voted number one by an overwhelming 87 percent of students polled.

“It’s no mistake that Panama City Beach has been Spring Break’s top destination for the past 20 years,” said Carm Giardina, a representative of Collegiate Marketing Group. “This study continues to make it official.”

The sun and fun destination of Panama City Beach is regarded as one of the southern United States’ hottest travel spots, recording more than six million visitors each and every year. But it is Spring Break that gave this small beach town its place on the map. As Giardina puts it, “Spring Break is the reason the world knows about Panama City Beach, Florida.”

Situated along the Northwest Florida panhandle, “Panama City Beach is easily accessible to just about anyone driving or flying from within east of the Mississippi River,” continued Giardina. “That’s a lot of people that are within close proximity.”

People come to Panama City Beach not just for the amazing beaches and comfortable sub-tropical weather, but for the affordable hotel rates (still relatively cheaper than most other hot spot destinations), and great beach dining experiences.

Students looking to party the night away are treated to Panama City Beach’s elite night life experience, including some of the biggest and best clubs in the U.S. hosting some of the country’s biggest and most talked about events each year. “It’s no secret that this place is a paradise for the college crowd,” said Giardina.

For more information about Spring Break in Panama City Beach, including all the up-to-date information on the best places to stay, eat and have fun, visit http://www.pcbeachspringbreak.com.

About Panama City Beach:

Highly regarded as “the best beach this side of paradise”, Panama City Beach offers 27 miles of sugar white sandy beaches, emerald green waters along the shoreline, and boasts an average of 320 days of beautiful sunshine per year. The weather is sub-tropical, with a year-round temperature averaging 74 degrees, what many would consider perfect weather for relaxing and definitely a key reason why Panama City Beach travel is so popular.

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GMO Farmer: ‘I Won’t Eat My Own Crops’

Thanks to Monsanto, he feels he has no choice

Like a thousand other farmers across the US, Kirk Bair is a farmer looking for ways to grow food economically and with as little labor as possible – but what are the moral implications of planting food you are aware is toxic, and selling it to your friends and neighbors? Is Bair in the right for planting GMO seed, even if conventional seed is hard to come by?

Bair has said:

“When you put a herbicide gene inside a corn seed, soybean, wheat, whatever you’re working with, you’re eating that. You’re ingesting it.”

It is clear that Bair realizes the health dangers of GM crops, but he plants them anyway? Why? He feels he has no choice, and there is a multi-billion dollar industry calling the shots.

“I’ve got some good looking ears coming,” said Kirk Bair, admiring his genetically modified corn crop, developed with Monsanto’s technology.

When asked why he has planted GM corn, Blair states:

“To use conventional corn, non-GMO, I’d have to till, apply pre-emergence herbicide. It’s more economical and more convenient to use GMO corn on real ground. I only use it because I felt like I had to. My seed supplier said, ‘Kirk it’s harder and harder to get a hold of conventional seed.’”

In less than a decade, the US has gone from planning 100% conventional seeds to almost 90% genetically modified seeds. Corn, soybeans and cotton are some of the most commonly grown GM crops – all considered staples.

Even though Blair grows GM crops, he says:

“I want to know what I am eating and I don’t want to eat GMO foods.”

Imagine that – a farmer who won’t eat his own crops. He has even supported labeling initiatives in California stating:

“People need know what they’re eating. People want to know what they’re eating.”

Read: 800 Scientists Demand Global ‘GMO Experiment’ End

This is a strange phenomenon – when farmers will knowingly plant crops they realize are dangerous to human health. Are they right about giving in to Monsanto, Bayer, and Syngenta when banned GM crops are being found in Europe, or when they are growing in Oregon and Minnesota fields without permission?

What about cross-pollination? Is a farmer’s ability to grow non-GMO completely compromised already to such a degree that she or he has to just shut down their tilling machines like a defeated warrior laying down his sword?

One biotech company claims the following reasons that farmers plant GM crops:

“Because they benefit from the technology – after all, 17.3 million farmers around the world do so, and their numbers grow each season.

In addition to higher yields and higher farm income, their reasons include:

Increased management flexibility

Easier adoption of no- or reduced till farming, which saves time, equipment usage, and carbon emissions

Improved weed control

Soil preservation

Less worry about pest damage

Less time spent on crop walking and/or insecticide application

Savings in energy use – mainly associated with less spraying and tillage

Savings in machinery use (for spraying and possibly reduced harvesting times)

Improved quality (e.g., lower levels of mycotoxins in GM insect-resistant maize)”

To the astute reader, there are several items on this list that are completely false – ‘less worry about pest damage’ could elicit an entire book of refutation. GM crops have increased worry about pest infestation. The emergence of superweeds and superbugs was in tandem with GM planting.

The ‘savings in machinery’ is arguable too, as more and more herbicide and pesticide use likely eats up any saved costs from having to spray more often – not less. The soil is also not preserved with GM crop planting – but destroyed. This has been proven many times over.

Multiple studies have looked at GM planting and its effects on the soil. One such study explains:

. . .residues of Bt maize plants that are ploughed into the soil following harvest suppress its ability to respire (produce carbon dioxide), it also reduces mycorrhizal colonisation and seriously alters bacterial populations within the soil ecosystem. This function of soil is vitally important for regulating plant growth and vitality, and for increasing availability of minerals and nutrients.

. . . Bt toxins persist in the soil for a considerable amount of time, which impedes the soil flora recovery and impacts upon plant health and growth in subsequent growing seasons.”

Addressing the other items on the list like improved quality are questionable, as are many other of the fallacious reasons given by EuropaBio.

Many farmers simply won’t accept the biotech misinformation that has been dished out for decades. The Rodale Research Institute on Organic Farming and Gardening lists thousands of farmers who know a better way. Since the 1940s and prior, this country has been growing food without chemicals and GM technology. It is more than possible, and now more than ever, vital.

It is understandable how farmers could initially feel drawn to the Big Ag model, based largely on the calculating lies of the biotech industry – but hopefully more farmers are seeing through biotech’s façade.

Bair seems to have seen behind Oz’s curtain to some degree, but he and other farmers like him obviously need public support to choose non-GM seeds and grow them.

You don’t fight a multi-billion dollar industry on a few acres. Perhaps Bair will join the ranks of Dr. Theirry Vrain, a former pro-GMO scientist who now whistleblows on the entire industry. That would be redemption.

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The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and GNS Healthcare Announce Collaboration to Identify Potential New Multiple Myeloma Therapies

Initiative will deploy predictive big data analytics to analyze patient data from landmark CoMMpass Study™ to speed drug discovery and development for patients with multiple myeloma

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GNS Healthcare (GNS), a leading provider of analytics solutions for driving personalized interventions that improve population health, and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), a leader in accelerating the development of breakthrough multiple myeloma therapies, today announced a collaboration to speed the discovery of innovative treatments for patients with multiple myeloma. The effort will combine the unprecedented genomic and clinical data from the MMRF’s landmark CoMMpass Study™ with revolutionary GNS machine learning platforms and rapid computer simulations. The work supports the development of computer models of myeloma disease that may uncover novel molecular pathways that can prevent progression of disease and address the unmet treatment needs of patients with multiple myeloma.

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"This work embodies the transformative role for big data analytics to uncover specific treatment protocols that have a much better chance of success for individual patients,"

Smoking Not a Risk Factor for Multiple Myeloma

Cigarette smoking is not a risk factor for multiple myeloma, according to the results of a pooled analysis of nine case-control studies published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Gabriella Andreotti, MD, of the National Cancer Institute, and colleagues undertook this study in an effort to clarify any relationship between cigarette smoking and multiple myeloma. Previous research had indicated no relationship between the two, but many of these studies may have been underpowered to detect an association, according to the researchers.

For this pooled analysis, Andreotti and colleagues used questionnaire data that included information on cigarette smoking from nine studies that included 2,670 cases of myeloma and 11,913 control cases.

Results showed no increased risk of multiple myeloma among ever smokers (OR = 0.95; 95% CI, 0.87-1.05), current smokers (OR = 0.82; 95% CI, 0.73-0.93), or former smokers (OR = 1.03; 95% CI, 0.92-1.14) compared with never smokers.

“These associations did not change measurably when participants who ceased smoking within 2 years prior to the completion of the questionnaire were re-categorized as current smokers from former smokers,” the researchers wrote. “However, we did find that participants who stopped smoking after age 56 had an almost 40% higher risk of multiple myeloma than those who stopped at age 33 or younger.”

Interestingly, the data showed that women who were ever smokers (OR = 0.83; 95% CI, 0.72-0.96) and current smokers (OR = 0.71; 95% CI, 0.58-0.86) had significantly lower risk for multiple myeloma than did women who were never smokers. The researchers wrote that the reasons for this reduced risk were unclear, but added that the “null exposure-response relationships with smoking frequency, pack-years, and duration of smoking among women argue against smoking being a real protective factor.”

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DIY Household Cleaners Instead of Toxic Chemicals

Considering the world that we live in I thought it prudent to cover things that many people hardly think about. Or they consider them benign.They actually are not benign and many of these common household and beauty items are toxic.

You consider your dish cleaner, glass cleaner, carpet freshener, aerosol fragrances, fragrance candles, furniture polish, bathroom cleaners etc mostly safe right? Many of you do not blink before buying a bottle or a can of some cleaning product. But when you consider that you can make them yourself for less of a cost to your wallet, why not make it yourself? You could get your children involved with supervision and help them to learn what to do for their own future. Give them the power of self sufficiency.

If you say well I do not have time then you really have to ask yourself some questions:

1.Do you have time to get ready go to the store and go out purchase what you need every time you run out?

2.Do you have the gas money to continually go purchase more chemicals that could be causing health problems in your home?

3.Do you have the money to invest in your health that could be avoided if you just made your own instead?

4.Do you have the money to take your children or your pets to the hospital or the vet?

5.Wouldn’t it be easier to just plan ahead, buy what you need in a larger amount and make it yourself?


6.Would you truly be better off doing what you have always done?

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