The affordable Comfort Inn & Conference Center Northeast, a leading north Atlanta hotel, offers special rates for guests attending the 2012-13 NFC Championship Game on Sunday, January 20, 2013. The Atlanta Falcons will host the San Francisco 49ers at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta, GA. The winner will advance to Super Bowl XLVII. For event info and tickets, visit http://tickets.atlantafalcons.com/. The NFC Championship Game special at this Comfort Inn Atlanta, includes: - Rates from $69 per night (plus tax) from January 18-20, 2013 - Hot breakfast for up ...

Kitchen Inspire, a professional kitchen supplies company, suggests many of their new professional grade kitchen tools would make great gift idea, including their professional grade French fry cutter. With a French fry cutter, lots of fun can be had by the entire family. Trying to achieve restaurant quality French fries can be difficult, particularly if your family members are French fry connoisseurs, but with the French fry cutter at Kitchen Inspire, your entire family can have loads of fun cutting their own French fries to make for movie night, slumber parties, or any ...

Atlanta auto repair shop and proud partner of the Atlanta Braves, Express Oil Change and Service Center is discussing the options the baseball team has for a new left fielder. As it currently stands, the Braves have a couple players at their disposal, but making the final decision seems to be a tough one for the coaches to make. Ultimately, they must decide whether to add a new player to the roster, or rearrange their existing lineup to meet their needs. Both options present advantages and disadvantages. Express Oil wants to remind residents that when the Braves win, everyone ...

With the changing of the year, many people decide that they want to change themselves. However, the vast majority of resolutions are forgotten as the year wears on. The makers of Healthe Trim, a natural weight loss supplement, understand that your resolutions are important to you and wish to offer suggestions on how to better structure your resolutions to help you to keep them. One of the most important things you can do with your resolution is to be specific about your goal. Vague goals like "lose weight" and "get organized" are too non-specific ...

J. Martinez & Company Fine Coffees is pleased to announce the long awaited return of Kona coffee. Unavailable for much of 2012 due to a supply shortage, this delicious Hawaiian coffee is once again available from J. Martinez & Co. in one pound bags of either Medium or Dark Roast. Renowned for its complex and well-balanced flavor profile, Hawaii Kona coffee has been in short supply due to an ongoing infestation of coffee berry borers in the Kona region. Coffee berry borers are a notorious problem among coffee growers in other parts of the world, where they can ...

Evergreens and conifers keep their foliage year-round, meaning their growth cycle continues throughout the winter months. Proper care and maintenance, including hiring an Atlanta tree removal services company, is required to ensure their health. To maintain the strength of your evergreen and coniferous trees, you must fertilize them throughout the year, not just in the spring and summer months. Since these trees are continuously shedding their leaves and needles, they must have an ample supply of food to be properly nourished. "Most homeowners do not think about ...

Everyone wants their home to look its best whether you entertain guests or just take pride in homeownership. A fresh coat of paint is just the way to create a warm, inviting environment that friends and family will love to visit. The Atlanta painting professionals at The Painting Company offer some suggestions on how to rejuvenate your home's interior, as well as breathe life and character back into those walls. It's always a good idea to do any necessary research and preparations ahead of time, before you enter into the holiday season. Take some time to consider sheens ...

Eyeglass World has long looked at eyewear as a way for individuals to express their personal style. Now, the company is pleased to offer designer eyeglass frames inspired by the popular television show Project Runway. With host Heidi Klum's fingers on the pulse of New York fashion, Project Runway has delighted would-be designers and those who simply love fashion for a decade. Now fans can show off that love with designer frames from the show's officially licensed collection. The fashion-forward show just finished its tenth season, pitting aspiring fashion designers ...

The Asociacion de Empresarios Mexicanos (AEM) is a nonprofit established 17 years ago in San Antonio. AEM is dedicated to helping Mexican Nationals who arrive in the U.S. as investors and entrepreneurs to more easily understand and adapt to American culture and the American way of doing business as well as to helping Americans who want to do business in Mexico. Since 2011, Eduardo Bravo has served as both AEM Chairman of the Board and President of the local chapter. He aggressively launched new AEM chapters in the U.S. and Mexico; specifically, in Austin, Brownsville, ...

In the world of search engine optimization, things change quickly. With rapid and frequent change can come confusion about what is detrimental to the performance of a website on the Internet and what is beneficial. Despite the talk of shake-ups in the world of search engines and rankings last year, news sites are still viewed in a positive light by search engines, and are therefore one of your most reliable marketing channels to utilize for your business. When combined with other tools in an overall marketing plan, press release distribution offers maximum value ...

There is something remarkable about a centuries old home at the seashore. So many memories and so much charm. The goal of the Remarkable Renovations Team is to preserve the nostalgia and character of these lovely old homes, while tailoring to the owners' individual taste, lifestyle, and budget. That's exactly what the team is doing for Steve and Ilene Berger of Newtown Square, PA. The couple bought an historic oceanfront villa in Ventnor, New Jersey that was owned by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Saint Joseph's Villa by the Sea was a place of solace and retreat for ...

Retired former Chicago Cubs sports legend and entrepreneur Sammy Sosa has purchased the distribution rights for North America and Latin America, excluding Brazil, for the needle-free injection system known as Injex21. Mr. Sosa was introduced to the Injex21 system in mid-2012, when he immediately saw the potential to help millions of people around the world who are forced to take painful injections, who are afraid of injections or who subject themselves to daily self-injections. Medical workers, as well, can reduce the risk of puncture wounds. The Injex21 needle-free ...

The air we breathe contains much more information than how many drinks you had at the last party. You can even draw conclusions about a person's state of health. In humans, thanks to the most sensitive analytical instruments, even cancer signals can be found in the breath. A cigarette leaves signs in the exhaled air a week after smoking. Not only people, but also microorganisms "breathe". After several years of joint research of acib and the Tyrolean business partner Ionimed on the "breath" of microorganisms the sensitive analysis of the components ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, today announced the appointment of Dena Parker as the organization's new Chief Financial Officer. Parker brings 25 years of financial management experience in multiple healthcare segments, having most recently served as chief financial officer and executive vice president of the respiratory division of Apria Healthcare, a 10,000-employee, home respiratory and medical equipment provider with revenues ...

Aiming to improve its presence in the health insurance sector, Saham Finance, a subsidiary of Saham Group (www.sahamgroup.com), has signed a strategic partnership with Cegedim Activ, a subsidiary of Cegedim. This agreement seeks to develop Cegedim Activ health management solutions in African, Maghrebian and Middle Eastern markets. The first phase of this partnership will be materialized by early 2013, with a project in Angola. Saham Finances, first Pan-African insurance group which has established a substantial presence in the Middle East, announces the signing ...

A new way of studying and visualizing Earth science data from a NASA and U.S. Geological Survey satellite program is resulting in, for the first time, the ability to tease out the small events that can cause big changes in an ecosystem. Called LandTrendr, this computer program is able to find patterns previously buried within vast amounts of scientific data. Still in development, it's already led to seeing for the first time in satellite imagery an obscured, slow-moving decline and recovery of trees in Pacific Northwest forests. Comparing satellite data to ground data, ...

Tropical Storm Narelle is growing weaker as it continues to track in a southerly direction parallel to the coast of Western Australia. NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites captured visible data and rainfall rates on Narelle and noticed the storm was less intense than it was, however, warnings are still up as Narelle continues moving down the coast. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Narelle on Jan. 12 at 0615 UTC (1:15 a.m. EST) and Jan. 13 at 0655 UTC (1:55 a.m. EST) and captured these visible images of the storm. The imagery on Jan. 12 showed that Narelle ...

When it comes to prescribing medications to their patients, physicians could use a dose of extra training, according to a new study led by a UCLA researcher. In previous studies, Dr. Derjung Tarn and her colleagues found that when doctors prescribed medicines, the information they provided to patients was spotty at best, they rarely addressed the cost of medications and they didn't adequately monitor their patients' medication adherence. The logical next step, Tarn said, was to devise an intervention aimed at improving how physicians communicate to their patients ...

It is well known that violent adults often have a history of childhood psychological trauma. Some of these individuals exhibit very real, physical alterations in a part of the brain called the orbitofrontal cortex. Yet a direct link between such early trauma and neurological changes has been difficult to find, until now. Publishing in the January 15 edition of Translational Psychiatry, EPFL Professor Carmen Sandi and team demonstrate for the first time a correlation between psychological trauma in pre-adolescent rats and neurological changes similar to those found in ...

PASADENA, Calif., January 15, 2013 – Measurements taken over time of prostate specific antigen, the most commonly used screening test for prostate cancer in men, improve the accuracy of aggressive prostate cancer detection when compared to a single measurement of PSA, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the British Journal of Urology International. The retrospective study examined the electronic health records of nearly 220,000 men ages 45 and older over a 10-year period who had at least one PSA measurement and no previous diagnosis of prostate cancer. ...

Some children who are accurately diagnosed in early childhood with autism lose the symptoms and the diagnosis as they grow older, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has confirmed. The research team made the finding by carefully documenting a prior diagnosis of autism in a small group of school-age children and young adults with no current symptoms of the disorder. The report is the first of a series that will probe more deeply into the nature of the change in these children's status. Having been diagnosed at one time with an autism spectrum disorder ...

Philadelphia, PA, January 15, 2013 – Originally, the label "borderline personality disorder" was applied to patients who were thought to represent a middle ground between patients with neurotic and psychotic disorders. Increasingly, though, this area of research has focused on the heightened emotional reactivity observed in patients carrying this diagnosis, as well as the high rates with which they also meet diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder and mood disorders. New research now published in Biological Psychiatry from Dr. Anthony Ruocco at the University ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have come up with a technique to embed needle-like carbon nanofibers in an elastic membrane, creating a flexible "bed of nails" on the nanoscale that opens the door to development of new drug-delivery systems. The research community is interested in finding new ways to deliver precise doses of drugs to specific targets, such as regions of the brain. One idea is to create balloons embedded with nanoscale spikes that are coated with the relevant drug. Theoretically, the deflated balloon could be inserted into the target area ...

A protein known as Sp2 is key to the proper creation of neurons from stem cells, according to researchers at North Carolina State University. Understanding how this protein works could enable scientists to "program" stem cells for regeneration, which has implications for neural therapies. Troy Ghashghaei and Jon Horowitz, both faculty in NC State's Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and researchers in the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, wanted to know more about the function of Sp2, a cell cycle regulator that helps control how cells ...

People's memory for Facebook posts is strikingly stronger than their memory for human faces or sentences from books, according to a new study. The findings shed light on how our memories favour natural, spontaneous writing over polished, edited content, and could have wider implications for the worlds of education, communications and advertising. The research, authored by academics at the University of Warwick (Dr Laura Mickes) and UC San Diego (including Professors Christine Harris and Nicholas Christenfeld), tested memory for text taken from anonymised Facebook updates, ...