On May 17, the Georgia-based law firm of Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer was presented with the Guardian of Justice Award by the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association during the Association's Annual Convention. This prestigious award is GTLA's highest honor and is reserved for members who have upheld the organization's mission of "[P]rotecting the Constitutional promise of justice for all by guaranteeing the right to trial by jury, preserving an independent judiciary, and providing access to the courts for all Georgians." Receipt of the award recognizes the ...

The Hilton Garden Inn Columbia Hotel (Northeast) announced today that it has received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. The accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews on TripAdvisor, and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Only the top-performing 10 percent of businesses listed on TripAdvisor receive this prestigious award. To qualify for a Certificate of Excellence, businesses must maintain an overall rating of four or higher, out of a possible five, as ...

The Hilton Garden Inn - Atlanta Airport Hotel (North), located near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in East Point, announced today that it has received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. The accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve exceptional traveler reviews on TripAdvisor, and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Only the top-performing 10 percent of businesses listed on TripAdvisor receive this prestigious award. To qualify for a Certificate of Excellence, businesses ...

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites N-Atlanta Perimeter Mall Hotel offers convenient lodging to guests attending "Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel" at Chastain Park Amphitheater on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 8pm. AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle, along with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will perform a tribute to the music of Simon & Garfunkel. Swearingen and Beedle have been performing before sold out audiences for more than a decade. This retrospective show will transport listeners back to the early years of Simon & Garfunkel. The concert is part of ...

For over 43 years, North Fulton Pest Solutions has earned the loyalty and trust of generations of homeowners with its excellent Marietta pest control services and devotion to customer service. Their top-of-the-line pest control service extends throughout the metro Atlanta area, including Marietta and Cobb County. The Marietta pest control company prides itself on maintaining a high level of professionalism as well as constantly seeking out the latest and most effective forms of pest control available. It offers its customers a complete range of Marietta wildlife control ...

The Atlanta plumbing firm, Plumb Xpress, would like to announce that they have been receiving glowing reviews from their customers on Kudzu. The Atlanta plumbers were recently awarded the Kudzu Award of 2012 as well, which is definitely an accomplishment. For those of you who do not know, Kudzu is an excellent website that provides detailed information on many businesses throughout the country. Visitors can read business biographies, obtain contact and location information, as well as reviews posted by actual customers. Reviews are what the site is known best for; ...

Would you like that sexy, luxurious head of hair that you have always dreamed of having? Now you can use the same method that many of the celebrities that you see in the movies and on television use to look their best. Try Sunny's Hair and Wigs newest line of products 100-percent virgin Indian hair extensions. Why Try 100-percent Pure Indian Hair Extensions? These virgin hair extensions are made with hair from Indian women that has never been chemically treated. Many of the women grow their hair long with the intention of giving the locks to their local Hindu temple ...

Sharegate, the simplest SharePoint Migration tool, announced today the release of its latest feature: Migrate SharePoint Sites. From now on, users will be able to Copy SharePoint Sites, Subsites, Site Settings, Web Parts, Site Navigation and more with a simple Drap & Drop! This is definitely amazing news when you have many sites to copy and no time to transfer all of them separately. The key features and benefits of Sharegate's latest release include: Copy SharePoint Sites: Migrate Sites and Subsites to SharePoint 2013 or 2010 with a simple Drag and Drop. It's also ...

Over and over clients are praising the experts at Blue Tax for the savings they have found. Almost every new tax prep client tells the same story. They all claim that their previous tax preparers never took the time to really look at their business, its expenses, and what they can be doing to save more taxes in the future. They state that, for the first time, it seems that someone actually cares about their business. Since opening the tax prep division, Blue Tax has continually tried to do things better than the competition. Blue Tax has used their database of clients ...

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor Bernard Keavney, from The University of Manchester and Newcastle University, led the research which saw investigators from Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford and Leicester universities in the UK, together with colleagues in Europe, Australia and Canada pool resources. The discovery, published in Nature Genetics today, will help lead to better understanding of why some patients are born with the disorder. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common form of congenital malformation, occurring in seven in 1000 babies born and is one ...

Australian scientists have narrowed the predicted range of global warming through groundbreaking new research. Dr Roger Bodman from Victoria University and Professors David Karoly and Peter Rayner from the University of Melbourne have generated what they say are more reliable projections of global warming estimates at 2100. Their paper, published in Nature Climate Change today, found that exceeding 6 degrees warming was now unlikely while exceeding 2 degrees is very likely for business-as-usual emissions. This was achieved through a new method combining observations ...

A large scientific study has discovered new genes causing severe seizure disorders that begin in babies and early childhood. The finding will lead to new tests to diagnose these conditions and promises to lead to improved outcomes. Epileptic encephalopathies are severe seizure disorders occurring in infants and children. The seizures are accompanied by slow development and intellectual problems. Paediatric neurologist and researcher Professor Ingrid Scheffer from the University of Melbourne and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and the clinical ...

To learn how biological molecules like proteins function, scientists must first understand their structures. Almost as important is understanding how the structures change, as molecules in the native state do their jobs. Existing methods for solving structure largely depend on crystallized molecules, and the shapes of more than 80,000 proteins in a static state have been solved this way. The majority of the two million proteins in the human body can't be crystallized, however. For most of them, even their low-resolution structures are still unknown. Their chance to ...

A simpler and faster way of producing designer bacteria used in biotechnology processes has been developed by University of Adelaide researchers. The researchers have developed a new one-step bacterial genetic engineering process called 'clonetegration', published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology. Led by Dr Keith Shearwin, in the University's School of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, the research facilitates faster development of designer bacteria used in therapeutic drug development, such as insulin, and other biotechnology products. Designer bacteria are ...

In a research letter, Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., S.M., from Yale University School of Medicine and colleagues, "sought to investigate preferences for participation in the decision-making process among individuals hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction ([AMI] or heart attack)." The researchers combined data from two similar AMI registries (TRIUMPH and PREMIER) which resulted in 6,636 patients in the study sample who were asked about who should make decisions on treatment options. "More than two-thirds of patients with AMI indicated a preference to play an active ...

Being born preterm goes hand in hand with an increased risk for neuro-cognitive deficits. Psychologists from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Warwick, UK have investigated the relation between the duration of pregnancy and cognitive abilities under varying work load conditions. "Cognitive performance deficits of children dramatically increase as cognitive workload of tasks increases and pregnancy duration decreases," says Dr Julia Jäkel from the Ruhr-Universität. In the journal "PLOS ONE", the researchers report a new cognitive workload model describing ...

Although the Bechstein's bat is regarded as a Euro-Siberian species, a study by researchers in the UPV/EHU's Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology has revealed that the historical transformation of part of its original habitat rather than bioclimatic reasons could be responsible for this distribution. This research has been published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management. The Bechstein's Bat (Myotis bechsteinii) has a broad distribution: from the Iberian Peninsula to the Caucasus, in the East, and as far as southern Scandinavia, in the north. Yet it is ...

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a dimmable LED street light that consumes significantly less energy than current lighting systems, while improving the lighting characteristics. The street lights were tested in Helsinki with user experiences collected. Traditional street lights work on full power when turned on, and the amount of light is not usually adjusted. The new LED street lights developed by VTT adapt to the ambient conditions with the help of sensors and wireless control, allowing them to be dimmed on the basis of natural light, environmental ...

London, May 27, 2013 - Young people are demanding information and education about their bodies, sex, their sexuality and sexual health, as well as access to services that will support them to stay safe and healthy. Papers published in the latest themed issue of Reproductive Health Matters (RHM) demonstrate that information and services in fact remain unavailable to many young people, and many may grow up without fully understanding things that they are currently experiencing such as menstruation, let alone preparing themselves for future sexual relationships and adulthood. ...

Cells have a sophisticated system to control and dispose of defective, superfluous proteins and thus to prevent damage to the body. Dr. Katrin Bagola and Professor Thomas Sommer of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch as well as Professor Michael Glickman and Professor Aaron Ciechanover of Technion, the Technical University of Israel in Haifa, have now discovered a new function of an enzyme that is involved in this vital process. Using yeast cells as a model organism, the researchers showed that a specific factor, abbreviated Cue1, is not only ...

This news release is available in German. Storing light in a bottle is easier than one might think: Laser light can be coupled into an optical glass fiber in such a way that it does not travel along the fiber but rather spirals around it in a bulged, bottle-like section. In such a bottle microresonator light can be stored for about ten nanoseconds, corresponding to 30,000 revolutions around the fiber. This is long enough to enable interactions between the light and single atoms, which are brought very close to the fiber surface. Now, scientists at the TU Vienna ...

The Antarctic continental ice cap came into existence during the Oligocene epoch, some 33.6 million years ago, according to data from an international expedition led by the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (IACT)—a Spanish National Research Council-University of Granada joint centre. These findings, based on information contained in ice sediments from different depths, have recently been published in the journal Science. Before the ice covered Antarctica, the Earth was a warm place with a tropical climate. In this region, plankton diversity was high until glaciation ...

For early detection of colorectal (colon) cancer, statutory health insurance in Germany offers a fecal occult blood test free of charge to all insured persons starting at 50 years of age. In addition, those 55 or older are entitled to an endoscopic examination of the colon (colonoscopy). Colonoscopy identifies precancerous lesions with a high level of exactitude. Nevertheless, only about 20-30 percent of those eligible actually take advantage of the screening examination. "Therefore, fecal occult blood tests are important, because they help us reach more people. People ...

Many solids are produced from melting. Depending on how quickly they cool off, invariably, internal tensile stresses begin to build up. One example are Prince Rupert's Drops, or Dutch tears: you can hit their thick end with a hammer without breaking them while a slight pressure applied to their thin end is enough to shatter the entire tear. The properties of safety or even gorilla glass are determined to a large extent by their internal tensile stresses. However, until now, our understanding of the unique characteristics exhibited by the condition of the glass as compared ...

This news release is available in German. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, using miniaturised high-speed cameras and high-speed behavioural tracking, discovered that rats move their eyes in opposite directions in both the horizontal and the vertical plane when running around. Each eye moves in a different direction, depending on the change in the animal's head position. An analysis of both eyes' field of view found that the eye movements exclude the possibility that rats fuse the visual information into a single image ...