Month: April 2016

As summer approaches, Arizona is certainly heating up. And while a trip to the beach might seem like the cure-all panacea for vacation-goers everywhere, the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau is trying their hardest to lure Los Angeles residents to Arizona for their next luxury vacation destination. In order to generate interest, the bureau posted a 10-story advertisement on the side of the Mondrian Hotel Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard, which is considered one of the most famous streets in the city. The advertisement depicts a sunbathing couple relaxing in luxurious, oasis-like settings. “It shows one of our ads featuring a man and a woman in the pool in front of the Sonoran desert backdrop,” Stephanie Pressler, community affairs manager at the Scottsdale CVB, said. And since ...

Dr. Muhammad Ali, a Vestivia Hills, AL, physician and owner of a Jasper neurology and pain clinic, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for writing narcotic painkiller prescriptions without legitimate medical reasoning. Ali was sentenced on 10 counts of unlawfully distributing controlled substances (over 1,100 oxycodone pills) to undercover officers. He was also ordered to forfeit $2,450 to the government, which were considered proceeds of illegal activity, and was fined $85,000. Ali was one of three Birmingham-area doctors charged last year in an effort on the part of DEA's Operation Pilluted in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, which focused on reducing the abuse of pharmaceuticals. The courts has ordered Ali to report to prison on May 10; during his supervi...

The world's first sustainable pipe, designed by QuakeWrap Inc., a Tucson, AZ-based designer, supplier and installer of FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer) products, won an American Society of Civil Engineers Innovation Award in the category "Best Value -- Green Engineering." According to the inventor, Dr. Mo Ehsani, a Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, the walls of the new pipe , called StifPipe, consist of a lightweight honeycomb core covered with carbon or glass FRP. He says that the pipe can be easily manufactured to any shape or size, and weighs about 10% less than traditional pipes. The FRP material, said Ehsani, is a technique that "has been successfully used in aerospace and ship-building industries for decades." This new breakthrough in pipe and ...