Atlanta wedding catering and event planning company, A Legendary Event, is comprised of award-winning and nationally recognized experts. One of which is executive pastry chef, Ami Dand, who recently won a prestigious second place in the Food Network's 'Sweet Genius' competition. To sweeten the deal, CEO and founder of A Legendary Event, Tony Conway, graciously awarded the hardworking chef with $10,000. Executive pastry chef, Ami Dand, has an impressive culinary background. She uses this wealth of experience to provide the most unique, splendid and delicious desserts ...

Atlanta Bus Charter Business Recommends a Fitting Name Samson Trailways, a premiere Atlanta bus charter company, wants to advise passengers on the importance of selecting a bus rental business with a suitable name. It may not seem like a big deal to most, but company names do say a lot about how a business operates. The end goal is to be customer service oriented; wise owners will choose a name that their customers can rely on and trust. This is particularly relevant for those working in the transportation industry. When a customer rents a charter bus, they want ...

Rumors have been circulating through the Twitterverse and blogosphere about a comment Atlanta Braves GM Frank Wren said during an interview. Wren responded to a question about the possibility of Michael Bourn returning to the team by expressing that the door was not closed on that possibility. Express Oil Change & Service Center, a Roswell car repair company, believes that the rumors surrounding this comment are reading too much into Wren's remark. Like all general managers, Wren is a smart man who would not outright refuse to take on a talented player like Bourn. ...

Toronto-born actor RJ Parrish will guest star in an episode of the new HBO show, Transporter: The Series, in an episode called 'City of Love', slated to air February 22 at 9pm on HBO Canada. In the episode, Parrish plays the role of gang leader, Gassam, a 'bad boy' who will stop at nothing to avenge the killing of his brother. Meanwhile, the protagonist, Frank, having realized that the package he is carrying is a bomb intended for use in a terrorist attack on Paris, is rushing to stop Gassam, enlisting the help of Gassam's sister who also wants to prevent her brother ...

Despite recent increases in the U.S. high school graduation rate, 11 percent of American high school students -- more than 500,000 children -- drop out each year. However, recent research has shown that the dropout rate can be dramatically reduced by intervening in children's lives during middle school. Today, one of the nation's premier eLearning companies is doing something about the problem, by offering a free online training course ($50 value) to Middle School students, teachers and counselors. Know Your Talents, a self-paced video training course, can help young ...

FMA Inc. (www.fmasummits.com) is hosting their 1st Progressive Data Center Summit, May 29th to 31st 2013 in Chicago, IL. The Summit program will feature Key Note Speakers representing thought leaders in charge of some of the largest Data Centers, who will provide notable success stories of how they manage efficiency and operational excellence within their facilities. These speakers include: Brian Janous, Data Center Utility Architect - Microsoft David Lopez, Manager Chicago CH2 - Comcast Bob Petrowski, Director, Data Centers & Critical Infrastructure - CME Group Matt ...

Bob Carter Companies LLC (www.BobCarterCo.com), an innovative philanthropic and fundraising consulting service with corporate headquarters in Sarasota, Florida, has opened its first international office in Mexico City. Claudia de la Vega has been engaged to serve as Regional Director for Mexico and Latin America. Experienced in nonprofit fundraising in the United States and Mexico, de la Vega served as director of the fundraising office at Casa de la Amistad para Ninos con Cancer, IAP, and as a development executive at the Fundacion del Empresariado en Mexico, AC (Fundemex). ...

As we get further into the New Year, social media is becoming more and more important to the world as it connects and unites people from all over the globe. Thankfully Cell2Get has become fully aware of this fact and began to formulate a new strategy for heavier convenience yet lighter complications. Dedicated to serve their consumers the right way, professionally, Cell2Get's plan is to promote coupons and promo codes by way of YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and more. Just think, saving money while doing what you love only to buy what you love, who doesn't love that? During ...

On January 26, 2013, an article by Bill Gates headlined "My Plan to Fix the World's Biggest Problems" ran in The Wall Street Journal. Part of that article talked about the need to develop innovative ways to measure many of the social, economic and health problems around the world. Some of the math that can be used to help analyze and improve those kinds of problems is some business math that was developed by Robert Barrows, President of R.M. Barrows, Inc. Advertising and Public Relations in San Mateo, California. "The business math that I developed ...

Its mission is simple...deliver right out of the oven cookies for personal or employee appreciation or celebration. "Why send flowers when you can send cookies?" says founder, Kim Kalan. The business model we have chosen is one of the most successful models available - carry out and delivery of pizza - but we deliver cookies! We have studied the model, have torn it apart and skinned it with a cool, engaging brand and offered up a business with a cause and a product that is fresh and fun. By choosing this model, we have entered the hyper-disciplined world of ...

Doctor Who's half-century celebrations continue with a screening of 'Tomb of the Cybermen' starring second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, at the British Film Institute on Saturday 9th February. Following January's screening of the first ever episode of Doctor Who starring William Hartnell in the lead role, this is the latest instalment in the BFI's monthly countdown to November's 50th anniversary of the famous BBC science fiction series. Such a landmark does not come in isolation in the capital this year, with cultural heavyweights past and present, dead and alive, taking ...

Transparensee Systems, Inc., a leading enterprise search software company, today announced that their flagship product, the Discovery Search Engine, is the winner of the 2013 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Search Technology Solution. CODiE Winners represent the information industry's best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, also announced Transparensee Systems, ...

Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astro-photographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive and combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106. Gendler retrieved archival Hubble images of M106 to assemble a mosaic of the center of the galaxy. He then used his own and fellow astro-photographer Jay GaBany's observations of M106 to combine with the Hubble data in areas where there ...

NASA-NOAA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured a night-time image of extra-tropical cyclone Felleng as it was being battered by wind shear in the Southern Indian Ocean. The night-time satellite image was captured by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite on Feb. 3 at 2120 UTC (11:20 p.m. local time, Indian/Antananarivo/1:40 p.m. EST, U.S.) when Felleng was located south of the Mozambique Channel. The VIIRS image was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and showed that ...

Boulder, Colo., USA – GSA Bulletin papers published online 11 Jan. 2013 include contributions from scientists in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Spain, the UK, and New Zealand. Multiple locations in the western U.S. are studied, along with locations in Canada, New Zealand, and Guatemala. Papers cover 1. Holocene record of strong earthquakes in the Lake Tahoe region, USA; 2. Tectonics, salt, and the fossil forests of Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site, Canada; 3. Tectonics, sediments, and the Hornbrook Formation of Oregon and California, USA; 4. A case study ...

Owing to the prevalence of multicore processors, more and more programs are written in a multi-threaded style to improve performance. However, associated concurrency errors have become an inconvenient cause of system faults. The research group from State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computers, Wuhan University, focused on finding methods to improve the trustworthiness of concurrent programs. By analyzing shortcomings of existing methods, they developed a more efficient method for detecting concurrency errors in object-oriented programs. Exploiting a ...

Everyone needs to eat. But it's a dog-eat-dog world, and with the exception of the top predators, everyone also gets eaten. To cope with this vicious reality, a tiny insect that eats plants has learned to employ the plant's hairs for physical protection from its beetle predator. The pest is called the cycad aulacaspis scale, and its invasion into numerous countries in recent years has caused immeasurable loss of biodiversity. Cycads belong to an ancient lineage of plants that date to the dinosaur era, and the pest requires a cycad plant for food. The insect's recent ...

U.S. soldiers in combat often suffer constricted blood vessels and increased pressure in the brain — significant complications of traumatic brain injuries, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. "Research shows that traumatic brain injury is a hallmark of recent military conflicts, affecting nearly a third of all wounded soldiers," said Alexander Razumovsky, Ph.D., lead researcher and director of Sentient NeuroCare Services in Hunt Valley, Md. Constricted blood vessels in the brain are cerebral vasospasm. ...

Marijuana, the most widely used illicit drug, may double stroke risk in young adults, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. In a New Zealand study, ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients were 2.3 times more likely to have cannabis, also known as marijuana, detected in urine tests as other age and sex matched patients, researchers said. "This is the first case-controlled study to show a possible link to the increased risk of stroke from cannabis," said P. Alan Barber, Ph.D., M.D., ...

Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have more bleeding strokes at an earlier age than other people independent of methamphetamine abuse, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. "Drug abuse is a huge problem here and it definitely is a cause of hemorrhagic stroke," said Kazuma Nakagawa, M.D., lead investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii. "But Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are experiencing this form of stroke at a younger age even without methamphetamine use. ...

Tai Chi may reduce falls among adult stroke survivors, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. Compared to survivors receiving usual care or participating in a national fitness program for Medicare-eligible adults called SilverSneakers®, those practicing Tai Chi had the fewest falls. Tai Chi is a martial art dating back to ancient China. It includes physical movements, mental concentration and relaxed breathing. "Learning how to find and maintain your balance after a stroke is a challenge," said Ruth ...

Differences in the physical connections of the brain are at the root of what make people think and behave differently from one another. Researchers reporting in the February 6 issue of the Cell Press journal Neuron shed new light on the details of this phenomenon, mapping the exact brain regions where individual differences occur. Their findings reveal that individuals' brain connectivity varies more in areas that relate to integrating information than in areas for initial perception of the world. "Understanding the normal range of individual variability in the human ...

Researchers at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan, along with colleagues from 9 other institutions, have identified an exceptional mouse model of schizophrenia. After screening over 160 mutant mouse strains with a systematic battery of behavioral tests, they identified a mutant mouse lacking the Schnurri-2 protein (Shn-2 KO) that exhibits behavioral deficits and other brain features consistent with schizophrenia. Shn-2 is an NF-B site-binding protein that binds enhancers ...

Running along the border between the constellations of Canis Major (The Great Dog) and Monoceros (The Unicorn) in the southern sky, the Seagull Nebula is a huge cloud mostly made of hydrogen gas. It's an example of what astronomers refer to as an HII region. Hot new stars form within these clouds and their intense ultraviolet radiation causes the surrounding gas to glow brightly. The reddish hue in this image is a telltale sign of the presence of ionised hydrogen [1]. The Seagull Nebula, known more formally as IC 2177, is a complex object with a bird-like shape that is ...

New York, NY (February 6, 2013) — Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified a protein trafficking defect within brain cells that may underlie common non-familial forms of Parkinson's disease. The defect is at a point of convergence for the action of at least three different genes that had been implicated in prior studies of Parkinson's disease. Whereas most molecular studies focus on mutations associated with rare familial forms of the disease, these findings relate directly to the common non-familial form of Parkinson's. The study was published ...