Topper Worldwide, a premier Atlanta limo service, wants fans to consider renting a car service in Atlanta before the next big game. Fans' pre-game warm-up should be filled with food, drinks and merriment before they root on their favorite team. The staff at Topper Worldwide want to help make that pre-game ritual memorable. From luxury sedans to stylish party buses, Topper Worldwide has a vehicle perfect for your next game experience. Why worry about driving to the stadium, parking and paying for parking when you can have a wonderful time in the back of party bus in Atlanta? ...

The Atlanta pest control firm, Team Pest USA, is proud to announce that it has recently launched a new location in Norcross. The company hopes that the new location will allow them to a broader range of customers and to attract new clients in the area. Now more than ever, Atlanta pest control services are in high demand. Spring is just around the corner, which is the prime season for many household pests. It is important to remember that bugs like mosquitos take shelter in the winter in the ground, which means they emerge very quickly when the weather starts to warm up. ...

Nicaragua's capital Managua made the third position in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Strategy category of American Cities of the Future 2013/14 ranking, published by fDi Intelligence, a division of The Financial Times. Managua was only outranked by Montreal and Toronto, meaning that as a country, Nicaragua placed 2nd only after Canada. It is also worth noting that Managua was the only city in Central America ranked in the top ten within this category. In its submission, PRONicaragua, the official investment and export promotion agency, revealed the strategies of ...

Anthem Marketing Solutions has released the fifth installment of their bi-annual study comparing online and in-store pricing of consumer goods across a range of commonly purchased categories, and for the first time including an analysis of pre- and post-holiday trends. The results show that overall, the in-store channel holds a slight advantage with 55% of the observations favoring this channel. However, that advantage is not consistent across categories and price tiers. Two key trends emerged from comparing results from the study with previous iterations. Among higher ...

Rainmaker Advisory LLC, a leading consulting firm in the U.S. dedicated to providing services exclusively to the retail insurance broking sector, today announced the results from its annual nationwide survey of US Domestic insurance producers of all disciplines: The Ten Most Common Mistakes Producers Made in 2012. David Estrada, Founder, Rainmaker Advisory, said, "This year's results revealed a lack of focus around the sales process, the need to develop coherent and organized sales initiatives, and an overall lack of clarity related to basic target client definition. ...

After conducting a nationwide test of technicians from its member companies, NationaLease is pleased to announce the regional winners of the Third Annual Tech Challenge exam. The highest-scoring technicians from each region will represent their member company in the next round of competition. Each of the winners will participate in the hands-on competition, which will take place during the NationaLease Spring Maintenance Managers Meeting this May, in Schaumburg, IL. The top three finalists in the competition will represent NationaLease at TMC's Annual SuperTech Competition ...

Shell Oil Company is once again teaming up with Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) to host the highly acclaimed, nationally-recognized GMiS STEM Showdown , in New Orleans, on Friday, April 12, 2013, at the Lindy Boggs International Conference Center, on the University of New Orleans. The event is set to begin at 8:30 AM. The STEM Showdown is a GMiS-led initiative that brings together underserved high school students and college students to compete in a series of intense science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) challenges. Student teams participate in hands-on exercises ...

The H1 visas disappeared in a flash this year....in fact, they needed a lottery in order to ascertain who will get one. At this point in time none of SanDiegoBizLaw's clients have heard whether they received one and we don't expect an answer for over two weeks' time. The CIS will begin processing the Premium Processing [i.e. those who paid an extra $1225 for 15 calendar-day service] cases on April 15th. However, it's great news for the economy, as this is the best temperature check, states Steven Riznyk of SanDiegoBizLaw.com, law and business consulting firm that has been ...

"Mercy Row is a novel set in 1920s and 1930s Philadelphia. It's the fictional story of the rise of a North Philadelphia crime family that was also responsible for building the homes and factories that make up this blue-collar area of the city. Despite the violent trials and tribulations caused by rival gangs from South Philadelphia and Chicago, Jacob Byrne and Franklin Garrett, with the help of the Irish immigrants who settled the Kensington area, build a formidable Irish mob. This legal and criminal enterprise keeps North Philadelphia free from the Mafia for over ...

Joseph Hollander & Craft LLC rang in the new year by expanding the firm's family law department. Associate Rebecca Sisk joined Joseph Hollander & Craft's Wichita office in January 2013. She practices family law alongside Julia Craft and Boyd McPherson. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Sisk worked in Chanute, Kansas, as an assistant city attorney. She also handled family law cases for a private firm. Ms. Sisk is a graduate of Washburn University School of Law. She completed her undergraduate studies at Kansas State University. Joseph Hollander & Craft looks ...

The average UK worker sends and receives 10,000 emails a year and one in ten spend the whole working day on a computer or mobile phone. That's according to new research released by npower, which documents how electronic devices have transformed our working lives over the past 60 years. The study, produced by Warwick Business School to support the 'Remember How We Used To Work' online archive from npower, which has been created on Historypin.com and maps out the increasing use of office gadgets through the years; from typewriters to telex, computers to smartphones, it ...

Environmental change can drive hard-wired evolutionary changes in animal species in a matter of generations. A study by Umeå University ecologist Tom Cameron and a research team at University of Leeds overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years. The results are published in the journal Ecology Letters. Instead, researchers found significant genetically transmitted changes in laboratory populations of soil mites in just 15 generations leading to a doubling of the age at which the mites reached adulthood and large ...

Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 504-670-4707 (New Orleans Press Center, April 5-10) 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society GUMBOS technology promises new drugs, electronic devices NEW ORLEANS, April 10, 2013 — Mention a breakthrough involving "gumbo" technology in this city, and people think of a new twist on The Local Dish, the stew that's the quintessence of southern Louisiana cooking. But scientific presentations at a meeting of the world's largest scientific society this week are focusing on what may be an advance in developing GUMBOS-based materials with far-reaching ...

Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 504-670-4707 (New Orleans Press Center, April 5-10) 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society Overcoming a major barrier to medical and other uses of 'microrockets' and 'micromotors' NEW ORLEANS, April 10, 2013 — An advance in micromotor technology akin to the invention of cars that fuel themselves from the pavement or air, rather than gasoline or batteries, is opening the door to broad new medical and industrial uses for these tiny devices, scientists said here today. Their update on development of the motors — so small that thousands ...

Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 504-670-4707 (New Orleans Press Center, April 5-10) 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society Major symposium on arsenic contamination in food and water supplies NEW ORLEANS, April 10, 2013 — After virtually eliminating arsenic as a useful tool for homicide, science now faces challenges in doing the same for natural sources of this fabled old "inheritance powder" that contaminates water supplies and food, threatening more than 35 million people worldwide. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a popular book documenting arsenic's ...

Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 504-670-4707 (New Orleans Press Center, April 5-10) 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society Understanding the life of lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles NEW ORLEANS, April 10, 2013 — Scientists today answered a question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles using lithium-ion batteries: How long before the battery pack dies, leaving a sticker-shock bill for a fresh pack or a car ready for the junk heap? Their answer, presented here at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of ...

WASHINGTON, DC (April 10, 2013)—A common virus known to cause cervical and head and neck cancers may also trigger some cases of lung cancer, according to new research presented by Fox Chase Cancer Center at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 on Wednesday, April 10. Examining tissue samples from lung cancer patients, the researchers found that nearly 6% showed signs they may have been driven by a strain of human papillomavirus (HPV) known to cause cancer. If HPV indeed plays a role in lung cancer in some patients, the next step is to better understand those tumors so they ...

MELBOURNE, FLA.—"What are the radiation doses to airplane passengers from the intense bursts of gamma-rays that originate from thunderclouds?" Florida Institute of Technology Department of Physics and Space Science faculty members addressed the issue and presented their terrestrial gamma ray flashes research modeling work at a press conference meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, April 10. Joseph Dwyer, Ningyu Liu and Hamid Rassoul discussed a new physics-based model of radiation dose calculations and compared the calculations to previous work. Scientists ...

The majority of family doctors receive little or no information about harmful effects of medicines when visited by drug company representatives, according to an international study involving Canadian, U.S. and French physicians. Yet the same doctors indicated that they were likely to start prescribing these drugs, consistent with previous research that shows prescribing behaviour is influenced by pharmaceutical promotion. The study, which had doctors fill out questionnaires about each promoted medicine following sales visits, was published online today in the Journal ...

LA JOLLA, CA – April 10, 2013 – Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shed light on one of the major toxic mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease. The discoveries could lead to a much better understanding of the Alzheimer's process and how to prevent it. The findings, reported in the April 10, 2013 issue of the journal Neuron, show that brain damage in Alzheimer's disease is linked to the overactivation of an enzyme called AMPK. When the scientists blocked this enzyme in mouse models of the disease, neurons were protected from loss of synapses—neuron-to-neuron ...

Estrogen and progesterone receptors, and the gene HER2 – these are the big three markers and/or targets in breast cancer. Evidence presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 adds a fourth: androgen receptors. "This is a continuing line of work with all evidence pointing toward the addition of the androgen receptor as potential target and useful marker in all of the major subtypes of breast cancer," says Jennifer Richer, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and co-director of the CU Cancer Center Tissue Processing and Procurement Core. The finding ...

Stars the size of the Sun end their lives as tiny and faint white dwarf stars. But as they make the final transition into retirement their atmospheres are blown away into space. For a few tens of thousands of years they are surrounded by the spectacular and colourful glowing clouds of ionised gas known as planetary nebulae. This new image from the VLT shows the planetary nebula IC 1295, which lies in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). It has the unusual feature of being surrounded by multiple shells that make it resemble a micro-organism seen under a microscope, ...

Sophia Antipolis, 10 April 2013. Despite their greater life expectancy, the adults of today are less "metabolically" healthy than their counterparts of previous generations. That's the conclusion of a large cohort study from the Netherlands which compared generational shifts in a range of well established metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Assessing the trends, the investigators concluded that "the more recently born generations are doing worse", and warn "that the prevalence of metabolic risk factors and the lifelong exposure to them have increased and ...

EGU Press Conference, Wednesday, 10 April-- Not only do humans emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but they also do things that help remove these gases from the atmosphere—for example, planting more forests or other land management techniques can lead to greater uptake of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. New research presented by IIASA researcher Hannes Böttcher at the EGU General Assembly this week estimates future land use emissions for the European Union. These scenarios provide the basis for policy discussions in the EU, and also help identify the least ...

New research has questioned the reliability of neuroscience studies, saying that conclusions could be misleading due to small sample sizes. A team led by academics from the University of Bristol reviewed 48 articles on neuroscience meta-analysis which were published in 2011 and concluded that most had an average power of around 20 per cent – a finding which means the chance of the average study discovering the effect being investigated is only one in five. The paper, being published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience today [10 April], reveals that small, low-powered studies ...