The Hampton Inn Atlanta-Southlake Morrow Hotel offers affordable lodging to travelers attending the COPA South Eastern Grappling Championships on May 25, 2013. The event will take place at Mt. Zion High School, located at 2535 Mt. Zion Parkway in Jonesboro, Georgia. The COPA Championships will be open to all forms of grappling including Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling, Submission Grappling, Catch Wrestling, SAMBO and No-Gi Jiu Jitsu. There will be more than 100 categories for men, women, and children of all levels. Some cash prizes will be awarded, and all 1st place division ...

Taking the culinary scene by storm, "my Sicilian kitchen" Cookbook has announced the opening of their official Ebay store. Successfully hosting numerous cooking demonstrations, book signings and appearances since their January 2013 launch, author and recipe designer, Linda Bilo-Brechtel has chosen to broaden the accessibility of her premier book via an official Ebay store. New copies of the Sicilian cookbook, featuring more than 100 authentic recipes translated into the English language and perfected by the author herself, can be purchased for $29.95 via the new ...

Cameleon Software (FR0000074247), the number one CPQ provider for tier one organizations, today announced the availability of Cameleon 9, the latest version of its Configure, Price, Quote solution. Along with several user experience improvements, this new version features two significant innovations: - A new module that automates the quote-to-delivery process for customized products, and, - A new tool dedicated to importing/exporting data that simplifies and accelerates the launching and updating of offerings. The new module for quote-to-delivery cycle automation ...

Patient financing innovator, American HealthCare Lending, has again streamlined its multiple unique solutions to be even more effective today. This powerful new platform gives patients and providers access to a line of credit, extended plans by way of installment loans, and a check-based program all in one user-friendly application. The launch of this new platform benefits American HealthCare Lending customers by dropping provider rates. The new rates will be 2-5% lower than the industry competition in every major lending category (I.E. 12 Mo. 0%, 18 Mo. 0%, 24 Mo. ...

Less is definitely more when it comes to writing and de-cluttering your text is paramount. Below are a few suggestions: 1. Don't go 'all round the houses" to say what you mean, for example: "I am writing to you this afternoon, in my capacity as coach of the Balltown, Little League baseball team, to request improved funding for the team next year." Compare: "I would like to request additional funding for the Balltown Little League baseball team." Half the words and the same message! 2. Try to avoid starting a sentence with 'There ...

TapSnap has arrived in northern New Jersey (just a hop, skip and jump across the Hudson from New York City) and it's taking the wedding photo booth trend to an entirely different level. "Every wedding I went to in the last year had a photo booth," said 32-year-old Milton Guerrero, a Cedar Knolls, N.J. resident who is the local owner of the newly minted TapSnap franchise. "But TapSnap breaks the mold of the traditional photo booth. Because that giant screen is out there in the open, it draws a lot of attention and brings the crowd together. There's a lot ...

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia has signed an agreement with MusicVine, an artist management consulting organization that provides its clients with distinguished worldwide representation within the international classical music business at the highest levels of expertise. Comprised of an impressive list of conductors and soloists, the Chamber Orchestra is the first orchestra on the MusicVine roster. "We are excited to be representing The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia," remarked Ron Merlino, President/CEO of MusicVine. "We look forward to using ...

www.osullivansproducts.com is the new online home for O'Sullivan's wood care products - including their legendary furniture polish. For 86 years, O'Sullivan's has been the most trusted polish for fine furniture, antiques, pianos, wood floors and paneling. O'Sullivan's Furniture Polish beautifies, cleans and preserves all wood and has been handcrafted in the USA, in small batches, since 1927! "Our loyal customers tell us they wouldn't use anything else but O'Sullivan's. Our furniture polish is easy to use - with no buffing - so we created our new website to make ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Imaging scans following treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma do little to help detect a relapse, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The overwhelming majority of patients with this aggressive lymphoma already have symptoms, an abnormal physical exam or an abnormal blood test at the time of relapse, the researchers say. The findings will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting May 31-June 4 in Chicago. "Our results were surprising because the current standard-of-care is to include scans for the follow-up of this disease," ...

A University of Otago-led multidisciplinary team of scientists have shed new light on the diet, lifestyles and movements of the first New Zealanders by analysing isotopes from their bones and teeth. In research published this week in the prestigious international journal PLOS ONE, the team are able to identify what is likely to be the first group of people to colonise Marlborough's Wairau Bar possibly from Polynesia around 700 years ago. They also present evidence suggesting that individuals from two other groups buried at the site had likely lived in different regions ...

Most of us don't ponder our pulses outside of the gym. But doctors use the human pulse as a diagnostic tool to monitor heart health. Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and no wider than a postage stamp. The flexible skin-like monitor, worn under an adhesive bandage on the wrist, is sensitive enough to help doctors detect stiff arteries and cardiovascular problems. The devices could one day be used to continuously track heart health and provide doctors a safer method of measuring a key ...

In the future, if you want to improve your ability to manipulate numbers in your head, you might just plug yourself in. So say researchers who report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 16 on studies of a harmless form of brain stimulation applied to an area known to be important for math ability. "With just five days of cognitive training and noninvasive, painless brain stimulation, we were able to bring about long-lasting improvements in cognitive and brain functions," says Roi Cohen Kadosh of the University of Oxford. Incredibly, the improvements held ...

People with strokes caused by blood clots fared better in hospitals participating in the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke program according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. "We found that stroke patients treated in Get With The Guidelines hospitals were less likely to die or end up back in the hospital than those treated at other closely-matched hospitals not in the program," said Sarah Song, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author and an assistant professor of neurology at Rush University Medical ...

Heart attack or heart failure patients may have a high risk of death or re-admission for a month or longer after leaving the hospital, researchers said at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Scientific Sessions 2013. "The risks of death and re-hospitalization can extend well beyond 30 days after discharge, the time period used by the federal government for measuring hospital performance," said Kumar Dharmarajan, M.D., M.B.A., lead author of the study and a fellow in cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, and visiting ...

Washington, DC (May 13, 2013) – A recent study by a team of researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas found that risky sexual behavior can be predicted by cultural, socioeconomic and individual mores in conjunction with how one views themselves. Katherine Hertlein of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will present her team's findings at the 63rd annual International Communication Association conference in London. Hertlein and colleagues surveyed over 800 participants and evaluated elements of the likelihood of one's engagement in high-risk sexual behavior. ...

In our interaction with our environment we constantly refer to past experiences stored as memories to guide behavioral decisions. But how memories are formed, stored and then retrieved to assist decision-making remains a mystery. By observing whole-brain activity in live zebrafish, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have visualized for the first time how information stored as long-term memory in the cerebral cortex is processed to guide behavioral choices. The study, published today in the journal Neuron was carried out by Dr. Tazu Aoki and Dr. Hitoshi ...

Raising hopes for cell-based therapies, UC San Francisco researchers have created the first functioning human thymus tissue from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory. The researchers showed that, in mice, the tissue can be used to foster the development of white blood cells the body needs to mount healthy immune responses and to prevent harmful autoimmune reactions. The scientists who developed the thymus cells — which caused the proliferation and maturation of functioning immune cells when transplanted — said the achievement marks a significant step toward potential ...

An international team of astronomers have reported the first scientific results from the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. The results appear in the latest issue of the prestigious international astronomical journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). Using the seven-dish KAT-7 telescope and the 26 m radio telescope at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO), astronomers have observed a neutron star system known as Circinus ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition. A study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry adds substantially to the story by reporting the discovery of a molecular chain of events in the brains of obese rats that undermined their ability to suppress appetite and to increase calorie burning. It's a vicious cycle, involving a breakdown in how brain cells process key proteins, that allows obesity to beget further obesity. But in a finding ...

Depending on the species, males have different strategies. They may try to ensure paternity by increased surveillance and fighting off the competition, or by having more frequent sex with their long-term partners. Others react by physically punishing unfaithful females or by reducing parental care once the – potentially unrelated – offspring has arrived. Herbert Hoi and colleagues of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, together with scientists from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, carried out experiments with reed warblers to see how a situation of ...

A scientist has discovered an ancient extinct creature with 'scissor hand-like' claws in fossil records and has named it in honour of his favourite movie star. The 505 million year old fossil called Kooteninchela deppi (pronounced Koo-ten-ee-che-la depp-eye), which is a distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, was named after the actor Johnny Depp for his starring role as Edward Scissorhands - a movie about an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands. Kooteninchela deppi is helping researchers to piece together more information ...

This news release is available in German. Nanomaterials exhibit unique properties that can only unfold when the structures of the material are very small – that is, at the nanoscale. In order to exploit these special properties such as, for example, specific quantum effects it is very important to produce predefined nanostructures in a controlled way and interpret the formation of their shape. Scientists try to understand how to initiate and control the growth of nanomaterials and are exploring different ways to design and build up nanostructures with fine control ...

Spanish researchers have studied how job stress affects cardiovascular health. The results, published in the 'Scandinavian Journal of Public Health', link this situation to dyslipidemia, a disorder that alters the levels of lipids and lipoproteins in the blood. Experts have been saying for years that emotional stress is linked to the risk of suffering cardiovascular disease as a result of unhealthy habits such as smoking, an unsuitable diet or leading a sedentary lifestyle, among other factors. Now, a study conducted by the Sociedad de Prevención de Ibermutuamur, in ...

A study led by researchers from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has for the first time revealed how the loss of a particular tumour suppressing protein leads to the abnormal growth of tumours of the brain and nervous system. The study is published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology. Tumour suppressors exist in cells to prevent abnormal cell division in our bodies. The loss of a tumour suppressor called Merlin leads to tumours in many cell types within our nervous systems. There are two copies of a tumour suppressor, one on each chromosome ...

Software developed at the University of Sheffield has the potential to enable engineers to make 'real world' safety assessments of structures and foundations with unprecedented ease. Developed in the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, the software can directly identify three-dimensional collapse mechanisms and provide information about margin of safety, vitally important to engineers. A method of directly identifying two-dimensional collapse mechanisms was first developed in the Department in 2007, and commercialised through the spinout company LimitState ...