McCusker Holding Corp., a Colleyville-based firm focused on end-to-end consumer and commercial technology service solutions, has acquired a majority stake in Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Computer Tree, a provider of global procurement and technology training centers. "Computer Tree enables us to extend our consumer and commercial suite of services into the very important training element," said McCusker Holding Company Chairman Will McCusker. "As technology advances, training for workers becomes even more critical. This vertical will provide McCusker Holding Company with ...

Attorney Chelsie King Garza has been recognized as a top Texas lawyer through inclusion on the 2014 Texas Rising Stars list. Ms. Garza is an associate attorney at the Houston law firm of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend. The Texas Rising Stars list is a selection of prominent litigators in the state as compiled by Super Lawyers. The list is published annually by Texas Monthly magazine. Attorneys on the list represent the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in Texas under the age of 40 or who have practiced law for less than a decade. Ms. Garza is ...

Orange County Trust Company, one of the oldest community banks in the Hudson Valley, today named banking veteran Michael Gilfeather as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gilfeather, who will also serve in the same positions with the bank's holding company, will be based at Orange County Trust's headquarters in Middletown, New York. Mr. Gilfeather brings nearly thirty-five years of banking experience to his new leadership position. Prior to joining Orange County Trust, Mr. Gilfeather was the Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President of Hudson ...

Richard Klecha, Senior Manager Process Control of RioTinto, has been recognized for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in mining operations. Mr. Klecha has 30 years of professional experience, with two years as a senior manager process control for RioTinto. His areas of expertise include coal processing design, operations, management and process optimization. On a daily basis, he is responsible for leading business improvement and process optimization initiatives. Mr. Klecha feels that there are two key points of difference between himself and his peers. ...

Gaëlle Ple-Boishardy, Change Management Director of the Group Social and Collaborative Network Project at VINCI, has been recognized for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in change management processes and improvement program design and implementation. With two decades of practiced experience in her field, Mrs. Ple-Boishardy holds a unique set of qualifications that allow her to excel in her position with VINCI. Just one short year ago, she began in her role as change management director for the group social and collaborative network project. During the course ...

Cleary Gull, Inc. announced a new pre-retirement planning program specifically designed for United Airlines pilots and their 401(k) plans with a Schwab Personal Choice Retirement Account (PCRA) brokerage window. Pilot retirement plans have changed significantly since the financial crisis due to airline restructuring, mergers and bankruptcies; requiring pilots to take more control and have more responsibility for preparing for their retirement. Cleary Gull's ClearWealth Pre-Retirement Program allows pilots to work with an outside advisor to have a professionally managed ...

The law firm of Barna, Guzy & Steffen held its annual meeting on March 29, 2014 in Coon Rapids, MN. The meeting included a gathering of the Board of Directors, a State of the Firm given by Jeffrey S. Johnson and reports from the Practice Group Managers. After twenty-four years as President, Jeffrey S. Johnson decided not to seek another term. The shareholders at Barna, Guzy & Steffen elected a new firm President, William F. Huefner. Bill is a Shareholder who focuses his practice on Estate Planning. He joined the firm in 1991 as a Law Clerk while attending law ...

The current trend in modern bar and bat mitzvah celebrations combines the best of Jewish traditions with the latest technological advancements, according to Atlanta party rentals specialist Events Rental Unlimited. Many families are focusing on the mitzvah (service) aspect of the event by emphasizing the young person's increasing involvement in the community. At the same time, technology has given the young teens more party choices than merely showing off their moves on the dance floor. Entertainment options include virtual and interactive games as well as custom activity ...

The days of suffering from sticker shock when you are presented with a plumbing bill are over. Leading Pittsburgh plumbers, Stahl Plumbing, will give you a free estimate for any plumbing service before beginning a job. Know in advance how much a plumbing project will cost you and avoid unpleasantness and unexpected expenses. Be financially prepared and confident, whether you're installing a new HVAC system, repairing a furnace or handling any other major repairs and plumbing problems. Stahl Plumbing is the answer to all your regular plumbing maintenance and installation ...

Haystac, a provider of enterprise-class unstructured data classification, retention and analytics platform for information governance, announced today that it has joined ARMA International, the leading association for information governance as one of its industry members. As the only software platform solution (PaaS) specifically architected to deliver multi-level classification for unstructured data, Haystac's Unified Information Governance (UIG360) provides correlated and consolidated information from a variety of user defined categories. UIG360 is a highly flexible ...

On Saturday, April 12, female and male fitness models and athletic enthusiasts from all over the Northeast will converge on the Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, Conn. for Fitness Atlantic 2014. The Finals of this glamorous fitness pageant will begin at 6 p.m. The event's Preliminary Competition will take place earlier in the day at 10 a.m. Last year's Fitness Atlantic Overall Winner was Amy Diaz who, several months later, went on to win CBS-TV's Amazing Race show. "Fitness Atlantic is a one-of-a-kind pageant where more than 150 contestants compete for ...

New research reports that women who frequently consume fat-free or low-fat milk may delay the progression of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Results published in the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) journal, Arthritis Care & Research, show that women who ate cheese saw an increase in knee OA progression. Yogurt did not impact OA progression in men or women. OA is a common, degenerative joint disease that causes pain and swelling of joints in the hand, hips, or knee. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), OA affects nearly 27 million ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Childhood obesity comes with an estimated price tag of $19,000 per child when comparing lifetime medical costs to those of a normal weight child, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. When multiplied by the number of obese 10-year-olds in the United States, lifetime medical costs for this age alone reach roughly $14 billion. An alternative estimate, which takes into account the possibility of normal weight children gaining weight in adulthood, reduces the cost ...

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center found that integrating an educational intervention regarding upper respiratory infections (URI) into Early Head Start programs led to a significant decrease in pediatric emergency visits and adverse care practices among predominantly Latino families, who have been shown to be at high risk for limited health literacy. Findings are published in the journal Pediatrics. Four Early Head Start sites in New York City in the Washington Heights/Inwood section of Northern Manhattan were randomly assigned to intervention or standard ...

WASHINGTON — A nationwide study of children who have witnessed domestic violence found that parents or caregivers were physically injured in more than a third of the cases, yet only a small fraction of offenders went to jail and just one in four incidents resulted in police reports, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. "One of the most shocking findings is that less than 2 percent of the cases resulted in jail time for the perpetrator," said lead researcher Sherry Hamby, PhD, a psychology research professor at Sewanee, The University ...

Researchers at the University of Montreal and the INRS-Institut-Armand-Frappier have shown that men circumcised after the age of 35 were 45% less at risk of later developing prostate cancer than uncircumcised men. This is one of the findings that resulted from a study undertaken by Andrea Spence and her research directors Marie-Élise Parent and Marie-Claude Rousseau. The researchers interviewed 2114 men living on the Island of Montreal. Half of them had been diagnosed with prostate cancer between 2005 and 2009, while the others participated in the study as the control group. ...

Vienna, Austria: Men with prostate cancer that is small and confined to the prostate gland but that is at risk of growing and spreading, do better if they are treated with radiotherapy combined with androgen deprivation therapy, which lowers their levels of the male hormone, testosterone, according to new research. The findings, which will be presented at the 33rd conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO33) in Vienna today (Monday), are expected to change clinical practice. Professor Michel Bolla, a professor of radiation oncology at ...

Vienna, Austria: Women who have radiotherapy for breast cancer have a small but significantly increased risk of subsequently developing a primary lung tumour, and now research has shown that this risk increases with the amount of radiation absorbed by the tissue. Dr Trine Grantzau (MD) told the 33rd conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO33) in Vienna: "We found that for each Gray [1] delivered to the lung as part of radiotherapy for a breast tumour, the relative risk of developing a subsequent primary lung cancer increased. This increased ...

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) suggests that Sweden—the country already thought to have the second highest prevalence of type 1 diabetes in the world—could have 2-3 times more adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes than previously estimated. The research is by Dr Araz Rawshani, Swedish National Diabetes Register, Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues. Current estimates in Sweden are based on the Diabetes Incidence Study in Sweden (DISS), which has been around since 1983. The DISS is one ...

A third of intensive care patients develop depression that typically manifests as physical, or somatic, symptoms such as weakness, appetite change, and fatigue, rather than psychological symptoms, according to one of the largest studies to investigate the mental health and functional outcomes of survivors of critical care, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The study suggests that intensive care unit (ICU) survivors could be three times more likely to experience depression than the general population, and that depression is four times more common than post-traumatic ...

SAN DIEGO, CA (April 6, 2014)—Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center have shown that NEDD9, a scaffolding protein responsible for regulating signaling pathways in the cell, promotes the growth and spread of epithelial ovarian cancer. Previous studies have demonstrated the protein's importance in tumor invasion and spread of some lymphomas and many solid tumor types, including melanoma, neuroblastoma, and breast cancer, but its role in gynecological cancers has been poorly understood. The new data, to be presented on Sunday, April 6 at the AACR Annual Meeting 2014, ...

Your body's cells have two major interconnected energy sources: the lipid metabolism and the glucose metabolism. Most cancers feed themselves by metabolizing glucose, and thus can be seen in Positron Emission Topography (PET) scans that detect radiolabeled glucose. However, prostate cancers tend to use the lipid metabolism route and so cannot be imaged in this way effectively. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study being presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2014 describes a novel method to "manipulate the lipid metabolism ...

SAN DIEGO, CA (April 6, 2014)—Tumor cells are picky about where they live. In the wrong environment, they fail to reach their potential. But put those same cells on the right bit of real estate, and they grow like mad. Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found renal cancer cells planted in a supportive environment proliferate with the help of an enzyme usually only seen in the brain. The enzyme, a specific isoform of a rather common kinase, may eventually become a target for cancer therapy as kinases constitute reasonably targetable enzymes, said Edna Cukierman, PhD, ...

LA JOLLA, CA—April 6, 2014—A study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has helped solve a long-standing mystery about the sense of touch. The "gentle touch" sensations that convey the stroke of a finger, the fine texture of something grasped and the light pressure of a breeze on the skin are brought to us by nerves that often terminate against special skin cells called Merkel cells. These skin cells' role in touch sensation has long been debated in the scientific community. The new study, however, suggests a dual-sensor system involving the Merkel ...

VIDEO: This animation shows the basic process of sequencing amino acids in a nanopore, using the technique of recognition tunneling. Click here for more information. Some three billion base pairs make up the human genome—the floor plan of life. In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced the successful decryption of this code, a tour de force that continues to supply a stream of insights relevant to human health and disease. Nevertheless, the primary actors in virtually all ...