Carmen Wisenbaker has been in the public relations industry for more than 35 years. During that time she has booked many of her clients on TV. But last October when the phone rang, the producer of the "Great Day Houston" show starring Deborah Duncan on KHOU-TV, was calling for her! They said they were looking for a big personality for a local segment about the city of Humble, Texas. Try as she did, she couldn't talk them into using someone else. They were insistent on booking her because she was the type of crazy person they were looking for to do this show. Of ...

The game of bingo has always been popular in the United Kingdom, which has been the birthplace of many famous land based bingo brands over past years, such as Mecca Bingo and Gala Bingo, to name just a couple. However, in 2007, smoking within public places became illegal in England and Wales, as a result of a new law passed in parliament back in 2004. Since then, UK bingo clubs have reported large drops in visit numbers, and have cited the smoking ban as the main result. However, at around the same time, the internet saw huge technological advancements in broadband technologies, ...

Coastal Kids Dental & Braces is excited to announce the opening of a new Pediatric Dental & Orthodontic office at 8600 Dorchester Rd, at the entrance to Coosaw Creek, in May 2013. Coastal Kids provides complete pediatric dental care for patients from infancy to young adulthood and special needs individuals of all ages. The new office will employ the latest state-of-the-are equipment to ensure children have access to the most conservative and comfortable dental care available. "Our new office on Dorchester Road will allow us to provide the very best in ...

Every so often a truly unique, game changing product hits the retail shelves. Every wonder how they got there? www.DailyGrommet.com, a company that launches new products, is holding a product launch competition next week, LIVE, in Fenway Park, Boston. This is where the top products get to compete for the top spot, or top grommet. The winner will receive prizes and assistance in the launch of their product. You can learn more about the product launch competition at www.dailygrommet.com/blog Frogglez goggles were selected as one of the top 10 new products (there ...

Litmocracy is always looking for the best minds and the most talented writers that it can find. The free writer's workshop and independent publisher uses innovative technology and a unique voting system to allow readers and other writers to find the best writing available, so any writer has the ability to be discovered. Now Litmocracy is looking for the best writers that they can find with the help of best selling author Steve Hockensmith. Hockensmith is a former New York Times bestseller for the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. He has won ...

Nearly 2.5 million viewers tune in every Wednesday to watch Discovery Channel's wildly popular "Moonshiners," making it one of cable TV's highest-rated shows. But this summer, as they have for more than four decades, travelers can experience moonshining culture firsthand with a visit to Ohio's Hocking Hills region. The area's rich history as a bootlegging capital comes alive during the annual Moonshine Festival, held this Memorial Day weekend, May 23-27 in New Straitsville in Perry County, Ohio. The festival takes place along the town's vintage Main Street ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions, outlines the five necessary steps that provide AP professionals with a roadmap to reduce the risks and increase the likelihood of success in leveraging AP automation in their latest blog post. The Corcentric blog is a knowledge center for accounts payable professionals to explore AP automation best practices along with the latest trends and news in financial process automation. This week, Corcentric focuses on the five steps companies should take to improve performance, ...

Billed as 'the Oscars of the design world', the Designs of the Year awards showcase the most innovative and imaginable designs from around the world over the past year - and London's new tallest skyscraper is one of a handful of shortlisted works from the capital. Given its instant impact on London's skyline, Renzo Piano's 310-metre-tall glass tower will be amongst the favourites to take the overall prize, which last year was won by the London 2012 Olympic Torch, designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. The awards span seven categories - Architecture, Digital, Fashion, ...

On Monday, April 8, 2013, at 11:59 p.m., internationally acclaimed film/TV producer-directors Nicole Franklin and Giovanna Aguilar will preview their jointly produced and hosted global webinar series aimed at marketing-communications professionals, "Midnight Media Capture: Storytelling with a Marketing Twist." The preview webinar will be free to pre-registered members of the New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), who can register at www.nywift.org. Also, 300 seats are being held on a free, first-come-first-registered basis for executive-level marketing ...

The South African Guild of Motoring Journalists yesterday awarded the Boxer Porsche as the car of the year, beating rivals that included Range Rover, Ford Bakkies and the Kia family of cars. Klingshield, the company who created the "smash and grab" concept in the 70's feel very proud and honoured to be the official supplier of Porsche Centre Johannesburg with all their window film requirements to ensure that their drivers experience a safe and comfortable drive. Klingshield's new Nano Ceramic window film stops 50% of the infra red heat, creating a cooler ...

AQB, a QuickBooks small business consulting firm, today announced it was named Intuit's Premier Reseller of the Year 2012-2013. AQB received this prestigious award for excellent year-over-year sales as well as a top net promoter score of 98% at the 2013 Intuit Premier Reseller conference in Mountain View, California. AQB, founded in 2009, also received this award in 2010, and has seen triple digit growth in 2010, 2011 and 2012 as an Intuit reseller. "It's an exciting honor to receive the Intuit Premier Reseller of the Year award again," said Marjorie Adams, ...

The High-Rise Insulation Experts at Thermafiber have developed another solution for the curtain wall industry. The new system (CW-D-1014) was tested with a 24" high spandrel area, the shortest spandrel height in the UL Fire Resistance Directory. This is also the first UL system that allows for the extension of vision glass to the floor line. The new system reduces material costs and installation time for curtain wall manufacturers and contractors. The UL System, CW-D-1014, incorporates multiple components of Thermafiber's patented Impasse system. The Impasse hangers ...

PaySimple, the cloud-based platform for managing and growing small businesses, today launched a redesigned mobile payment and business management iOS application accompanied by a new mobile credit card reader. The updated Run-Your-Business App offers service-based business owners the flexibility they need to operate their companies from anywhere and from a range of devices. PaySimple Mobile is now available in the App Store. It is available to all PaySimple users and enables them to accept all forms of electronic payment - including all credit cards, debit cards, and ...

New York, NY—March 11, 2013—Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new "plug-and-play" method to assemble complex cell microenvironments that is a scalable, highly precise way to fabricate tissues with any spatial organization or interest—such as those found in the heart or skeleton or vasculature. The study reveals new ways to better mimic the enormous complexity of tissue development, regeneration, and disease, and is published in the March 4 Early Online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). "George Eng, an MD/PhD student ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 11, 2013) — All-cause and cardiovascular mortality were similar for transaortic valve replacement compared to open-heart surgery in high-risk older patients at three years with no increased risk of stroke after 30 days, according to results from the PARTNER study presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. The transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system was investigated as an alternative to open-heart surgery for high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis—narrowing of a main circulatory gateway ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A team of sleep researchers led by UC Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick has confirmed the mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate memory and found that a commonly prescribed sleep aid enhances the process. Those discoveries could lead to new sleep therapies that will improve memory for aging adults and those with dementia, Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. The groundbreaking research appears in a paper, "The Critical Role of Sleep Spindles in Hippocampal-Dependent Memory: A Pharmacology Study," published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Earlier ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 11, 2013) — Bypass surgery done without a heart-lung machine, known as off-pump, may provide better post-operative outcomes than on-pump bypass surgery for high-risk patients, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. In the first study to look specifically at on-pump versus off-pump bypass surgery among patients deemed to be at high operative risk, researchers examined the primary endpoint of patients' combined outcomes of all-cause death, stroke, heart attack or renal failure requiring ...

Des Moines, IA - A short walk around the barn might improve the future fertility of Yorkshire gilts. According to research presented by Samantha Kaminski, a graduate student at North Dakota State University, swine fetuses showed significant ovarian development after their mothers exercised. Kaminski and fellow researchers already knew that uterine blood flow could affect blood flow to the ovaries of developing fetuses. To further study the relationship between uterine blood flow and ovary development, Kaminski and fellow researchers designed an experiment to increase ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Children who avoid situations they find scary are likely to have anxiety a Mayo Clinic study of more than 800 children ages 7 to 18 found. The study published this month in Behavior Therapy presents a new method of measuring avoidance behavior in young children. The researchers developed two eight-question surveys: the Children's Avoidance Measure Parent Report and the Children's Avoidance Measure Self Report. The questionnaires ask details about children's avoidance tendencies, for instance, in addressing parents, "When your child is scared or worried ...

The downed limbs and other woody debris that are inevitable byproducts of timber harvest could be among the most important components of post-harvest landscapes, according to a new study led by the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station. Researchers found that retaining moderate levels of logging debris, also known as "slash," helped to both directly and indirectly increase the growth rate of Douglas-fir seedlings replanted after harvest. The findings, which are among the first to speak to the benefits of second-growth logging debris, are published ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 10, 2013) — The prescription drug eplerenone appears to reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality and heart failure after a heart attack by more than one-third, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. The REMINDER (Reduction of heart failure morbidity in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction) trial was a randomized, double-blind trial of 1,012 patients who had a heart attack caused by a complete blockage of one of the heart's arteries. Patients had no signs or ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 10, 2013) — A single dose of an investigational anti-inflammatory drug, inclacumab, reduced damage to heart tissue during angioplasty in a study presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. More than 1 million coronary angioplasty procedures are performed in the United States each year, at a cost of more than $10 billion. Heart tissue can be damaged during angioplasty, often leading to additional procedures, poor outcomes and higher health care costs. In this trial, researchers compared a single dose of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 10, 2013) — A clot-busting therapy may benefit some heart attack patients who cannot have immediate angioplasty, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. "Drug therapy before transfer is at least as effective as [angioplasty], and an urgent catheterization was avoided in two-thirds of patients," said Frans Van de Werf, MD, PhD, professor of cardiology at University of Leuven, Belgium, and the study's lead investigator. "It gives [clinicians] time to consider other options, such ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 10, 2013) — A commonly used anti-anginal drug reduces chest pain in patients with type 2 diabetes and appears to have a more pronounced effect in those with poorer glucose control, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. Ranolazine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of chronic angina, or chest pain, both as first line therapy and as an add-on when symptoms are not relieved with other anti-anginal drugs, including beta-blockers, calcium channel ...

SAN FRANCISCO (March 10, 2013) — Heart attack patients given a combination of high-dose oral vitamins and minerals do not exhibit a significant reduction in recurrent cardiac events, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. However, the results of one component of the NIH-funded Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) study, shows that when combined with active chelation therapy, high-dose vitamins and minerals may provide some additional benefit. The TACT study tested the safety and effectiveness of ...