Even with the holidays behind us, you can still decorate the trees and bushes in your back or front yards with white lights to give them a sophisticated feel year round. However, while the trees may appear to look healthy, the fact is that they may already be damaged and even more susceptible to branches breaking off. You don't want to have all your body weight resting on the tree in standing on the branches to reach if the tree could break and harm you. Atlanta tree experts, Yellow Ribbon Tree Experts, note that proper care is essential in order to be able to not only ...

Atlanta painting contractors, The Painting Company, was honored in the service industry with the 2012 Angie's List Super Service Award. Angie's List is the U.S.'s top provider of consumer reviews for local service-based companies. The 2012 Super Service Award recognizes these Atlanta painting company professionals for the superior levels of service they consistently offer to their customers. This award is handed out on an annual basis to only about five percent of all the companies in Angie's List's system. Angie's List adheres to very strict standards for this award, ...

Eyeglass World congratulates Scarlett Johansson on her bold choices in glasses. Ms. Johansson continues to skyrocket in popularity after her recent success as Black Widow in The Avengers and shows off her excellent taste in eyewear around the globe. At a recent night out in Paris, Ms. Johansson opted for black framed plastic glasses that some called nerd glasses, but everyone called, "Wow!" The sexy designer eyeglass frames play to Ms. Johansson's current audience and make it clear that the old adage is false: boys do make passes at girls who wear glasses. In ...

The Senior Bowl announced today that it has selected Veritix (Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.) as its ticketing provider. The Senior Bowl, held annually in Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium, is college football's premier senior showcase event. It features the nation's best senior college football stars and top NFL draft prospects, who are coached by NFL staffs. The Senior Bowl executive team had a goal in mind to upgrade its ticketing operation and fan experience for the 2013 event. Veritix was selected for its robust, multi-featured ticketing system, experience in handling ...

For the eighth consecutive year Berman Travel has received Travel Impressions highest honors, their "Globe Award" given to a very limited number of Travel Impressions best performing agencies. Berman Travel opened in 2002 and received Travel Impressions "Best of the Best" recognition for the past ten years. For the past eight years Berman Travel has received Travel Impressions highest honor the "Globe Award". Berman Travel President Susan Berman, was on hand to receive this very prestigious award from Travel Impressions CEO Steve Gorga, ...

Today a breakthrough pizza box design was revealed to the world, after Windshield Marketing secured patents in 8 European countries, and a Notice of Allowance for its US patent. The new pizza box, called "ZABOXTM" was publicized through a new website and a series of interactive YouTube video commercials that begin today. The website, www.bestpizzabox.com, details how the innovative pizza box will revolutionize the pizza industry. "Pizza is one of the most convenient take-out and home-delivered foods," says Bill Volz, President of Windshield Marketing ...

Phoenix Industries, (PI) is pleased to announce they will be exhibiting at the upcoming Recycled Rubber Products Technology Conference in Las Vegas on October 10th and 11th. This 1st annual event is being hosted by The International Recycling Rubber Products Initiative, at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas (UNLV). This conference, supported by leading academia and businesses involved in the waste tire recycling and rubber products industries, will address a wide variety of technology advancements, economic strategies and opportunities in the field of rubber recycling. Mr. ...

McCusker Service Group, a leading worldwide provider of field service maintenance services, has significantly expanded its international customer footprint as the new service maintenance provider for New York City-based XpresSpa. XpresSpa is a leading provider of traveler comfort services located in airports worldwide. "The XpresSpa maintenance program agreement is a significant step forward in our international expansion efforts," said McCusker & Company Founder and Chief Executive Officer Will McCusker. "We are definitely excited to be awarded this ...

McCusker & Company, a leading worldwide provider of extended warranty services, has launched a consumer electronics marketplace to enable its dealers worldwide to buy, sell and trade high tech devices. "We are always looking for ways to help our dealers enhance their businesses," said McCusker & Company Senior Vice President Cameron Laufer. "This brand new marketplace provides them with another cash flow opportunity for their business by buying, selling and trading consumer electronics." The marketplace provides McCusker & Company dealers ...

Winner.com is proud to announce the launching of Winner Mobile. Available for Android and Apple mobile devices, Winner Mobile is launching with 12 games ready to go! To download the app, click on the "mobile" tab when visiting Winner.com. There are 3 ways to start playing at Winner Mobile Casino. The first is by clicking on "Send Link to my Device" and entering your smartphone number. A link to the Winner Mobile app is then sent to your phone. The second way is via the bar code. It's hard to miss the large bar code in the center of the screen. Take ...

Winner.com is shining the spotlight on big progressive jackpots with its new site, JackpotWinner.com. With new jackpot winners popping up regularly, Winner created an online shrine focused on the largest current jackpots and the latest jackpot winners. One of the main attractions of Jackpot Winner is the Jackpot Leaderboard, clickable on the top of every page. The Jackpot Leaderboard lists all of Winner's progressive jackpot games in descending order with the current top jackpots on top. As of this writing, Gladiator Jackpot is on top with a jackpot of over EUR1,100,000. ...

King Jewelers supports the YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee at the Wine Women & Shoes event on Saturday, January 26, 2013, in Nashville. Created for women who enjoy fine wine, great style, and supporting a noble cause, Wine Women & Shoes is one of the fastest-growing charity event series in the country. The event features wine tastings from illustrious Napa Valley vineyards, a live and silent auction, and walk-around boutique Marketplace featuring local and national trendsetters. Wine Women & Shoes will auction off a 'Key to the Closet', and the winner ...

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The vision of legendary NY model industry agent Alana Hoss, Sassination.com aims to create a low cost platform for the hottest new models to be discovered and for brands to easily fulfill their needs for promotional models with a simple one-click contracting process. Ad agencies and brands can use a unique set of search tools to narrow down their model search by city, measurements, and other characteristics. The best thing about Sassination.com is it eliminates the need for the brands that use their models to pay an agency fee and a minimum 4 hour call. Sassination.com ...

FMA Congresses (www.fmaintl.com) is hosting their 16th event the Progressive Energy, Environment & Sustainability Congress #16, May 29th to 31st 2013 in Chicago, IL. FMA Congresses builds a platform for the facilitation of high-level and valuable business partnerships between companies confronted with challenges within their facilities as they pertain to energy efficiency and the companies that offer the latest technologies and services that can answer to a range of issues. Now in its 16th event in the Progressive Energy, Environment & Sustainability series, ...

WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2013 — College students who aren't studying hard may have their parents' financial support to blame. A new study by University of California, Merced, sociology professor Laura T. Hamilton found that students' GPAs decreased with increased financial support from their parents. The study also found that students with financial aid from their parents were more likely to complete college and earn a degree. The study, "More is More or More is Less? Parental Financial Investments during College," will appear in the February issue of the American ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., January 15, 2013 — Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Space Agency have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on Mars. Researchers from the Mars Science Laboratory's ChemCam team today described how the laser instrument aboard the Curiosity Rover—an SUV-sized vehicle studying the surface of the Red Planet—has detected veins of gypsum running through an area known as Yellowknife Bay, located some 700 meters away from where the Curiosity Rover landed five months ago. "These ...

Scientists at Singapore Eye Research Institute and A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore have succeeded in identifying genes for central corneal thickness that may cause potentially blinding eye conditions. These eye conditions include glaucoma, as well as the progressive thinning of the cornea, which may eventually lead to a need for corneal transplantation. The authors jointly led a multi-centre study involving 55 hospitals and research centres around the world. They performed a meta-analysis on more than 20,000 individuals in European and Asian populations. Their ...

Cancer researchers are increasingly aware that in addition to genetic mutations in a cancer itself, characteristics of the surrounding tissue can promote or suppress tumor growth. One of these important tissue characteristics is inflammation – most cancers prosper in and attach to inflamed tissue and so many cancers have developed ways to create it. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation shows that the protein SPARC (Secreted Protein Acidic and Rich in Cysteine) acts much like an anti-inflammatory drug, attempting ...

Could probiotics help HIV patients? Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are the first line therapy for patients with HIV; however, ARV-treated, HIV-infected individuals still have a higher mortality rate than uninfected individuals. During the course of infection, HIV patients develop inflammation that damages the walls of the intestines, known as the gut mucosa, allowing intestinal microbes to escape and enter the blood stream to cause a life-threatening systemic infection. The health of the gut mucosa is significantly influenced by the complement of bacteria in the gut and ...

Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are the first line therapy for patients with HIV; however, ARV-treated, HIV-infected individuals still have a higher mortality rate than uninfected individuals. During the course of infection, HIV patients develop inflammation that damages the walls of the intestines, known as the gut mucosa, allowing intestinal microbes to escape and enter the blood stream to cause a life-threatening systemic infection. The health of the gut mucosa is significantly influenced by the complement of bacteria in the gut and there is mounting evidence that probiotic ...

Viruses prompt oncogenic transformation by genetically altering infected cells. Several recent studies have demonstrated that viruses alter the expression of microRNAs, non-coding RNA molecules that can block the expression of target genes. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Xiaoje Xu and colleagues at the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology report that miR-148a is repressed by hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx) to promote growth and metastasis of liver cancer. In normal liver cells, miR-148a represses the expression of the oncogenic protein HPIP, ...

PHILADELPHIA - One of the most insidious ways that parasitic diseases such as malaria and toxoplasmosis wreak their havoc is by hijacking their host's natural cellular processes, turning self against self. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, led by Doron Greenbaum, Ph.D., assistant professor of Pharmacology at Penn, have identified the cell signaling pathway used by these parasites to escape from and destroy their host cells and infect new cells -- pointing the way toward possible new strategies to ...

On the left of this new image there is a dark column resembling a cloud of smoke. To the right shines a small group of brilliant stars. At first glance these two features could not be more different, but they are in fact closely linked. The cloud contains huge amounts of cool cosmic dust and is a nursery where new stars are being born. It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region more than four billion years ago. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). The section ...

PITTSBURGH—For the first time, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts to injury. The research, published in Cerebral Cortex, shows that when one brain area loses functionality, a "back-up" team of secondary brain areas immediately activates, replacing not only the unavailable area but also its confederates. "The human brain has a remarkable ability to adapt to various types of trauma, such as traumatic brain injury and stroke, ...