Futuris Executive Manager of Human Resources Tricia Evans was recently named a VIP member of Worldwide Branding. This special distinction honors individuals who have shown exceptional commitment to achieving personal and professional success. Over the past 20 years, Tricia Evans has gained human resources and change management experience across a variety of industries including transport, health care, mining and chemicals. Now in the automotive field, she is responsible for development and implementation of organization wide human resource strategies, principles and ...

Paolo Pagani, President of E.Di.Ma.S., President of E.Di.Ma.S. Emergency and Disaster Management Studies, has been recognized for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in his profession. Mr. Pagani has 35 years of professional experience, with three years as President of E.Di.Ma.S. Emergency and Disaster Management Studies. Over the years, he has built up a comprehensive skill set that includes teamwork, leadership in international and multicultural environments, and business development. On a daily basis, he is responsible for maintaining an affiliation with ...

Katja Lidsell, Chief Operating Officer of Leonardo & Co., was recently named a VIP member of Worldwide Branding. This special distinction honors individuals who have shown exceptional commitment to achieving personal and professional success. Ms. Lidsell has almost 25 years of professional experience, and recently became the COO Europe of Leonardo & Co in late 2012, after having spent 13 years at Lazard, which she joined in 2000 Her latest position in Lazard was European Administrative Director. She started her career in 1989, when she moved from Stockholm, Sweden, ...

Catherine Paglino, International Brand Director for the Cosmetic and Luxury Division of Zepter International, has been recognized by Worldwide Branding for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in direct sales. Ms. Paglino has 25 years of experience in the luxury goods industry. In her current role of eight years, she handles her key accounts, which are mainly in Eastern Europe, including Russia and is also responsible for the development of all of the Zepter group's cosmetics and fragrances. She also gives orientations to the luxury industry to create fare trade ...

B. Lynn Kongkham, Broker and Realtor of Royal LePage York North Realty, Brokerage, was recently named a VIP member of Worldwide Branding. This special distinction honors individuals who have shown exceptional commitment to achieving personal and professional success. Ms. Kongkham has 28 years of experience as a broker and realtor of Royal LePage York North Realty. Over the years, her talent for relationship management has served her well, as good people skills are crucial to the selling and negotiation processes. Looking back, Ms. Kongkham attributes her success to ...

The Pampering Plumber offers its award-winning Tampa plumbing services to everyone, regardless of whether their property is commercial or residential. The Pampering Plumber operates with a focus on professionalism and personalized service. The company understands that its customers deserve a high level of respect, cooperation and customer service. These basic principles have earned the plumbers in Tampa, Fla., the prestigious Angie's List Super Service Award for more than five years in a row. The Angie's List award is indicative of The Pampering Plumber's superior ...

Varicose veins are large, swollen, bulging veins that are caused by weakened valves, resulting in blood not being pumped properly and instead accumulating in the veins. Varicose veins are very common and can affect anyone, anywhere. While varicose veins are often asymptomatic and painless, they can cause a number of symptoms, including swelling of the legs, cramping, aching, pain and itching around the veins, and these usually worsen as the day progresses. In more severe cases, dermatitis can ensue, and ulcers may be formed in the affected areas. Signs of varicose veins ...

You work very hard to keep your home or commercial property well landscaped and attractive. Of course, there are forces at work that can cause damage to your trees. Insects, disease and storms can all wreak havoc on otherwise healthy trees and as trees age, they can become fragile and possibly dangerous if they are placed over a home, vehicles or walkways. Yellow Ribbon, an Atlanta tree removal service, recommends dealing with any of these tree issues as soon as possible. You may find that after a severe storm, you have tree damage. A tree can fall over from too ...

Kaeng Raeng, a best selling cleanse program on Amazon.com, is set to showcase a brand new soy-free product line at 2014's ExpoWest in Anaheim, CA. The new product is a highly anticipated addition to Kaeng Raeng's high protein, soy-based product line. Kaeng Raeng's soy-free product features pea protein powder as the anchor for the three popular flavors "joyful" (strawberry, raspberry, pineapple); "daybreak" (mango, peach, pineapple); and "into the blue" (blueberry, banana). Kaeng Raeng's new formula with high quality pea protein stays true ...

To enforce creativity and engineering in the technology age, one institution in New Jersey named Storming Robots has been offering very unique programs for grade school students since 2005 that does exactly that with a clever model. Storming Robots believes and enforces the idea that science and creativity go hand-in-hand. Four Phases Model Storming Robots' Model offers a coherent trajectory of learning structure for students to capitalize their creativity with engineering disciplines. It aims to increase their propensity for the transition to competitive colleges ...

Poli Mortgage Group announces the launch of their new website, built specifically to provide a more user friendly and unique shopping experience for consumers. The key function being the addition of a rate quoting feature which will deliver any shopper immediate access to live rate quotes, obligation free. While most mortgage companies will request the submission of personal contact information before receiving a quote, Poli believes this is a dated practice which does not satisfy consumer needs in today's marketplace. Newly appointed Executive Vice President, Chris ...

Judy Kang is unlike any violinist you've ever heard. "Most likely the only musician to have worked with both Pierre Boulez and Lady Gaga," as the New York Times put it, Kang marries lively, evocative classical playing with such disparate influences as Bjork-inspired vocals, indie, electronica and hip-hop. Her multi-instrumental compositions, rooted in a love of classical and chamber music, explore how to make violin music for modern audiences in beautiful and often surprising ways. Thursday, May 1, 2014, beginning at 7:30 p.m., Ms. Kang will perform at ...

Now 285 years later, for true coffee lovers like Chadwick Conte, sipping a cup of well-brewed specialty coffee can be the highpoint of his day. His love of coffee led him to do research into the best coffee the world has to offer, which in turn led him to Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and Kona Coffee from Hawaii. After more years of research he opened an Internet-based coffee business called C&C Specialty Coffee. C&C Specialty Coffee specializes in importing and selling 100 percent Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. U.S. demand is such that the Jamaica Blue Mountain ...

'World of Dance' is the theme for this year's St Patrick's Day parade in London, one of 134 top events beginning in London this March previewed by LondonTown.com and for visitors who want to stay in the city to enjoy one of the many great events starting this month there's a wide range of London hotels to choose from. Theatre highlights in London in March 2014 include a star-studded production of classic 1987 film, 'Fatal Attraction' with Natascha McElhone as femme fatale Alex Forrest and Sex and the City's Kristin Davis as the woman betrayed in Trevor Nunn's brand new ...

As police and military organizations around the world grapple ineffectively with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Sergeant Kindle of the Alberta Police Force, in the thrilling new release FIREWALLS, pulls out all stops to give his officers every chance to heal. Canadian author, Eileen Schuh, is pleased to announce the release of the third novel in her BackTracker series--FIREWALLS. With the young heroine of the series, Katrina, now on the cusp of adulthood and pitting her brains and bravado against a challenging police career, this action-packed thriller is even ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ – Although some advocates want to lower the legal drinking age from 21, research continues to show that the law saves lives. That's the finding of a new review published in a special supplemental issue to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Researchers found that studies done since 2006—when a new debate over age-21 laws flared up—have continued to demonstrate that the mandates work. The laws, studies show, are associated with lower rates of drunk-driving crashes among young people. And it seems they also curb other hazards of heavy drinking—including ...

A new analysis has found that adolescents and young adults who develop thyroid cancer as a secondary cancer have a significantly greater risk of dying than those with primary thyroid cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings stress the importance of screening young cancer survivors to detect early signs of a potentially life-threatening thyroid malignancy. Thyroid cancer is one of the five most common malignancies in adolescent and young adult patients (ages 15 to 39 years). It can develop as an initial ...

STANFORD, Calif. - A computerized safety checklist that automatically pulls information from patients' electronic medical records was associated with a threefold drop in rates of one serious type of hospital-acquired infection, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. The study, conducted in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit, targeted bloodstream infections that begin in central lines - catheters inserted into major veins. The infections are a preventable cause of illness ...

KANSAS CITY, MO – February 24, 2014 – With less than half of medications including specific labeling for children, Kathleen Neville, MD, MS, a physician at Children's Mercy Hospital, recently led an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) committee in updating the policy with new recommendations guiding the off-label use of drugs in pediatric patients. The policy statement, "Off-Label Use of Drugs in Children," was published online today in the March 2014 issue of Pediatrics. Dr. Neville is chair of the AAP Committee on Drugs and Director of Experimental Therapeutics in ...

In a study to be published in Psychological Science, researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen demonstrate that brain cells in what is called the mirror system help people make sense of the actions they see other people perform in everyday life. Using magnetic stimulation to temporarily disrupt normal processing of the areas of the human brain involved in the production of actions of human participants, it is demonstrated that these areas are also involved in the understanding of actions. The study is the first to demonstrate a clear causal ...

A team of UConn chemists has discovered a new way of making a class of porous materials that allows for greater manufacturing controls and has significantly broader applications than the longtime industry standard. The process, more than three years in the making, has resulted in the creation of more than 60 new families of materials so far, with the potential for many more. The key catalyst in the process is recyclable, making it a 'green' technology. "This is definitely the most exciting project I've been involved in over the past 30 years," says Board of Trustees ...

Mark Puttick and colleagues investigated the rates of evolution of the two key characteristics that preceded flight: body size and forelimb length. In order to fly, hulking meat-eating dinosaurs had to shrink in size and grow much longer arms to support their feathered wings. "We were really surprised to discover that the key size shifts happened at the same time, at the origin of Paraves," said Mr Puttick of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences. "This was at least 20 million years before the first bird, the famous Archaeopteryx, and it shows that flight in birds arose ...

The UK urgently needs a green economic strategy to move towards low-carbon prosperity, resource security and environmental quality, says a new report published today by UCL's Green Economy Policy Commission. The Commission – drawn from a range of academic disciplines across UCL – argues that the UK's current situation of climate instability and increasing resource constraints mean that decisive action is urgently needed by the UK government to green the economy. Greening the Recovery argues that there is a window of opportunity for policies that acknowledge future ...

PHILADELPHIA – Researchers have identified a polio-like syndrome in a cluster of children from California over a one-year period, according to a case report released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014. "Although poliovirus has been eradicated from most of the globe, other viruses can also injure the spine, leading to a polio-like syndrome," said case report author Keith Van Haren, MD, with Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—February 23, 2014—The power of regenerative medicine now allows scientists to transform skin cells into cells that closely resemble heart cells, pancreas cells and even neurons. However, a method to generate cells that are fully mature—a crucial prerequisite for life-saving therapies—has proven far more difficult. But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have made an important breakthrough: they have discovered a way to transform skin cells into mature, fully functioning liver cells that flourish ...