The Painting Company, known for their highly skilled Atlanta house painters, urges you to renovate your deck this spring to restore its appearance, maintain its value and prepare it for heavy use during the summer months. Maximize the enjoyment of your outdoor space with a complete makeover from The Painting Company, a reputable painting company in Atlanta. They offer a wide selection of great products and services to choose from, guaranteed to have you entertaining your family and friends on your newly renovated deck this spring. This trustworthy Atlanta painting ...

New York City Community Chorus (www.nycccha.org), a non-audition, non-sectarian chorus that welcomes anyone who wants to sing, announced today that it has launched a fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo to raise $7,000 for its June 16 production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's emotionally gripping musical of pre-apartheid South Africa, "Lost in the Stars". The not-for-profit 19 year-old choral group, which performs in the City's Chelsea neighborhood, chose this online "crowdfunding" option to raise additional funds for their concert because anyone, ...

OBD Car Doctor provides a quick and easy way to communicate with your vehicle's on-board diagnostic system and turns your Mobile Phone or Tablet PC into a highly capable automotive scanner. OBD Car Doctor Pro saves consumers and automotive shops over a hundred dollars from purchasing a standalone reader. With OBD Car Doctor you can: - Check why engine light is on - Read and clear error codes - In real-time read vehicles sensors such as: speed, rotation, temperature, pressure, lambda and other sensors that are supported by vehicle - Read, Display and Record parameter ...

More than 1000 people attended a fundraiser at the Alex Theatre on Sunday, May 5, for cancer awareness. More than $60,000 was raised at this event which featured world renowned comedian Maz Jobrani, K-van and Vahik Pirhamzei. Proceeds from the event will go to cancer support services at Glendale Adventist Medical Center for the community. The event, hosted by the Dr. Norick Bogossian Cancer Care Guild, provides support services to patients diagnosed with cancer. Support services include: personal and family counseling, support groups, and classes - such as jewelry making, ...

PINC Solutions, the leading provider of advanced yard management and supply chain solutions, has been recognized as Top 100 logistics IT provider by Inbound Logistics Magazine in 2013. "Every April for the past 17 years, Inbound Logistics editors have selected 100 logistics technology companies that enable logistics and supply chain excellence. PINC Solutions was recognized by Inbound Logistics for leading the way in 2013 and positioning enterprises for the years ahead," said Felicia Stratton, Editor at Inbound Logistics magazine. "PINC excels at providing ...

This year's eighth Mascot Gold Cup, held at Wetherby Races in April and once again sponsored by Foresters, the international financial services organisation, has been described as a "classic". Thought to be the world's largest Mascot race, this is a fun and fund-raising event where people dress up in costumes and run the track at Wetherby races, jumping over fences and seeing who can cross the finishing line first. With everyone wearing heavy costumes, this is no mean feat! The event - which is expected to raise around GBP12,000 for the Sue Ryder charity ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of accounts payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions, today announced Rob DeVincent will be speaking at the Institute of Financial Operations' 2013 Fusion Conference, the largest conference for AP professionals and professionals working in all areas of financial operations. "Top 5 Habits of Highly Successful AP Departments," is session #210 in the AP focus discipline. This session, which offers one Business Management and Organization credit to attendees, will take place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 from 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM. ...

UtopYA, the first-of-its-kind convention for female writers and authors of the paranormal fiction genre in the young adult and new adult literature category and the fans who read it, announces CMT Insider host, Katie Cook, as their Awards Ceremony emcee for the second year in a row. Cook has made herself a go-to for celebrity interviews including ones with Taylor Swift, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon to name only a few will bring these same talents and skills to the second annual UtopYA awards on Saturday, June 29th at 8 PM. Taking place at the beautiful Scarritt-Bennett ...

KaboodleBox, a cloud storage and synchronization service, has launched this month with eyes on the market share currently held by big players such as Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive. KaboodleBox sets itself apart from the herd by offering extremely large storage space and a two pronged product line to cover both the automatic backup of files and the synchronization of files between devices. Their Backup product has an unlimited quota, allowing users to backup all the files on their computer - no matter how much data they have. Their Sync product allows accessing and ...

Equityhub International S.A., a global financial resource firm providing investor resources to the financial services industry, announced today the launch of their new website familyofficelist.org. Familyofficelist.org Equityhub's website, www.familyofficelist.org, is expected to become one of the leading providers of investor database lists for the fund industry. The Company's mission is to offer a range of quality, institutional grade products and services that will assist clients in reaching a sophisticated investor audience. Demand for quality investor lists The ...

San Diego bankruptcy attorney Paul Staley has seen a lot of changes in the practice of bankruptcy law in the past twenty years. None has disturbed him more than the current "race to the bottom" where lawyers advertise unrealistically low bankruptcy legal fees and lure clients in only to discover they'll likely be paying a lot more - or getting a lot less than what they thought they had bargained for. San Diego bankruptcy attorney Paul Staley urges his fellow practitioners to join him in the fight to ensure consumers get world class representation in their San ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, will be presenting at the Society of Hospital Medicine's 2013 Annual Meeting. Robert Bessler, M.D., CEO of Sound Physicians, will serve as an expert faculty member for SHM's new practice management pre-course, entitled, "What Keeps You Awake at Night? Hot Topics in Hospitalist Practice Management." The course will offer perspectives about best practices for delivering value in hospital medicine ...

Alligators may help scientists learn how to stimulate tooth regeneration in people, according to new research led by the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). For the first time, a global team of researchers led by USC pathology Professor Cheng-Ming Chuong, M.D., Ph.D., has uncovered unique cellular and molecular mechanisms behind tooth renewal in American alligators. Their study, titled "Specialized stem cell niche enables repetitive renewal of alligator teeth," appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the official ...

Pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared underlying causes and illness processes with schizophrenia, which some studies have also linked to prenatal exposure to influenza. "Prospective mothers should take common sense preventive measures, such as getting flu shots prior to and in the early stages of pregnancy and avoiding contact with people who ...

New research has revealed that the evolution of the complex, weight-bearing hips of walking animals from the basic hips of fish was a much simpler process than previously thought. Tetrapods, or four-legged animals, first stepped onto land about 395 million years ago. This significant change was made possible by strong hipbones and a connection through the spine via an ilium - features that were not present in the fish ancestors of tetrapods. In a study published in the journal Evolution and Development, Dr Catherine Boisvert of the Australian Regenerative Medicine ...

This news release is available in Spanish. Ana Sánchez and José Miguel Blanco, lecturers in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, together with Arturo Jaime and César Domínguez, lecturers in the Department of Mathematics and Computing at the University of La Rioja, have developed an experience between the two universities by systematically incorporating telecollaboration. The project has been developed in the ambit of two database subjects, one at each university, where the similitudes and differences ...

NEW YORK, May 14, 2013 – In a first-of-its-kind effort to illuminate the biochemical impact of trauma, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a connection between the quantity of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, known as CB1 receptors, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the chronic, disabling condition that can plague trauma victims with flashbacks, nightmares and emotional instability. Their findings, which appear online today in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, will also be presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society of Biological ...

An international team of scientists, including a University of York researcher, has carried out ground-breaking experiments to investigate the atomic structure of astatine (Z=85), the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth. Astatine (At) is of significant interest as its decay properties make it an ideal short-range radiation source for targeted alpha therapy in cancer treatment. The results of the project, which was conceived by Professor Andrei Andreyev, an Anniversary Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of York, and Dr Valentine Fedosseev, ...

Like small children, scientists are always asking the question 'why?'. One question they've yet to answer is why nature picked quantum physics, in all its weird glory, as a sensible way to behave. Researchers Corsin Pfister and Stephanie Wehner at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore tackle this perennial question in a paper published 14 May in Nature Communications. We know that things that follow quantum rules, such as atoms, electrons or the photons that make up light, are full of surprises. They can exist in more than one place ...

Northwestern University scientists have struck gold in the laboratory. They have discovered an inexpensive and environmentally benign method that uses simple cornstarch -- instead of cyanide -- to isolate gold from raw materials in a selective manner. This green method extracts gold from crude sources and leaves behind other metals that are often found mixed together with the crude gold. The new process also can be used to extract gold from consumer electronic waste. Current methods for gold recovery involve the use of highly poisonous cyanides, often leading to contamination ...

New Delhi, India—The Government of India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Bharat Biotech announced positive results from a Phase III clinical trial of a rotavirus vaccine developed and manufactured in India. Data from the trial, presented today at the International Symposium on Rotavirus Vaccines for India—The Evidence and the Promise, showed ROTAVAC® to have an excellent safety and efficacy profile. The clinical study demonstrates for the first time that the India-developed rotavirus vaccine ROTAVAC® is efficacious in preventing severe rotavirus diarrhoea in ...

Women whose breast cancer had been treated with chemotherapy demonstrated improved executive function, such as cognitive flexibility, verbal fluency and processing speed after using exercises developed by Lumosity, the leading online cognitive training program. The study also found significant improvement in self-reported measures of everyday executive function and observed some transfer to verbal memory. Researchers at Stanford University published the results in the peer-reviewed journal, Clinical Breast Cancer. Dr. Shelli Kesler, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and ...

WENATCHEE, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have found they can control one of fruit growers' more severe pests, aphids, with a remarkably benign tool: flowers. The discovery is a boon for organic as well as conventional tree fruit growers. The researchers recently published their study in the journal Biological Control. They found that plantings of sweet alyssum attracted a host of spiders and predator bugs that in turn preyed on woolly apple aphids, a pest that growers often control with chemical sprays. "The results were striking," said Lessando Gontijo, ...

The results of a large-scale, analysis of BitTorrent file-sharing of computer games, focusing on using open methodologies are to be published in the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication and bust some of the common myths about digital piracy. The controversy about illegal file sharing over the Internet has been a focus of intense attention from industry and media alike for the past decade. Despite the massive financial interests involved, there is, however, only limited factual knowledge available backing claims from either side of the controversy. Focusing ...

The Solanaceae, also called the potato or nightshade family, includes a wide range of flowering plants, some of which are important agricultural crops. Tomatoes, potatoes, aubergines, peppers and wolfberries are all representatives of the family present on many tables across the world. Solanum is the largest genus of the family, and with 1500 species, is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. Solanum has 13 major evolutionary groups,or clades. This new study published in the open access journal Phytokeys offers a complete revision of all of the species of the Dulcamaroid ...