Gico Music, along with the multitalented singer, songwriter and producer Gina Carey, are proud to announce the hugely anticipated release of "Gina Carey...The Songbird." This super smooth, soulful and funky CD is sure to capture the heart and soul of listeners worldwide. Previously, Gina Carey..The Songbird, has enjoyed commercial success and critical acclaim aplenty, including her number one, UK album, "Melodic." "Gina Carey...The Songbird" is Gina's best album to date. Not only does Gina Carey...The Songbird's warm, angelic, seventies ...

Part history lesson, part motivational speech and part results-driven, this book wonderfully blends these elements along with the tapestry of the Black in America experience, to create practical messages and current-day realities for a more fulfilling life and career. Deborah L. Parker has robustly compiled Seven Guidelines in this book, warmly woven together as a trifecta of strength, soul, and spirit. Cemented in the use of the word 'know', these guidelines represent timeless advice based on knowledge, well-being, and faith narratives as a 'way station' for courageously ...

As the time of New Year's resolutions arrives, more people will make new promises to change their lives. According to the University of Scranton. Journal of Clinical Psychology, the number one resolution is to lose weight. To help people who want to finally lose the weight they want to lose, Beta Labs, LTD introduces Phen FX. This new weight loss supplement is designed to help support diet and exercise plans, helping dieters reach their weight loss goals. Phen FX by Beta Labs, LTD contains a proprietary blend of ingredients: 1,3,7-trimethlyxanthine (12 Hour Caffeine), ...

Abandoned by her owner because she was pregnant and giving birth to 11 puppies in an animal shelter on Christmas Eve, a three-year-old black Lab named Bailey became the 1,000th dog rescued in 2012 by Lab Rescue of the Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac, setting a new record for the rescue group. Lab Rescue obtained Bailey from a shelter in Hughesville, Md., on Dec. 28 and brought her and the one yellow and 10 black puppies to a foster home in Fairfax, Va. She and her puppies will stay in foster care until the pups are old enough to be adopted. Lab Rescue finished ...

Dr. Susan M. Stuart, a board-certified dermatologist in San Diego, says non-surgical treatments such as BOTOX Cosmetic and Restylane can help postpone surgical procedures such as a facelift. By eliminating wrinkles and other signs of aging, these treatments allow 30- and 40-somethings to avoid the realities of surgery until they truly need it. While a facelift is an appropriate method for reversing more pronounced signs of aging, Dr. Stuart says, minimally invasive facial rejuvenation treatments will often meet the needs of younger patients. "For the right candidate, ...

Dr. Siamak Aalemansour, Bowie dentist, is happy to be providing Invisalign as an option for his patients that are looking to straighten their teeth. Invisalign offers a variety of advantages over traditional braces. "I am very glad that our practice is able to provide Invisalign service to our patients. Invisalign is an easy and effective way for our patients to straighten their teeth without many of the negative aspects of traditional braces. I hope that many of our patients will consider Invisalign treatment to correct their misaligned teeth in the future," ...

Dr. Jeffrey Skupny, dentist in Naples, is excited to be featuring an easy to use online appointment request form on his practice's comprehensive dental website. By using this feature, patients are now able to request an appointment at Dr. Skupny's office without having to pick up the phone. "I am very glad that our practice is able to make it easy for our patients to request appointments online. We are always looking for ways to make our practice more patient-friendly and this is a great example of that. I hope that many of our patients will take advantage of this ...

TJA ended 2012 with a new holiday tradition, making a family Christmas wish list a reality. With the recent rise in generosity inspired by the original Secret Santa, an un-named woman in Michigan who paid off a family's lay away plan at Kmart, TJA wanted to find away to give back to their hometown. The week before Christmas a TJA pilot visited an Austin based Walmart and brought Christmas early to families. TJA chose eighty two families on Santa's list and paid off their lay away balances. The total pay off was just under $10,400. "Our company is based on helping ...

London City Airport [LCY] and British Airways are expanding self-bag-tagging facilities for passengers checking in via self-service kiosks, following a successful trial last year. Passengers departing from LCY can use kiosks situated in the main concourse area to print their own baggage tags, affix them to their luggage and take it to a dedicated bag drop podium. The tag is then scanned and the weight of the bag checked - a process which the trial has shown to take an average of 24 seconds. The service has been extended to two bag drop podiums, with a view to opening ...

Jim Rando is a California state licensed contractor who works in the heating and cooling business. His direct employer is a family-owned business that was established in the California Bay Area back in 1957. With a presence that spans over half a century, Jim Rando understands the continued growth of his company depends on the continued quality that helped his company grow since its establishment. Jim Rando is proud to work for a family-owned company. Small family-owned businesses are what make up the backbone of America. While his company started off small, it did not ...

For many years, Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim has provided lessons in the martial arts to her students in California. She's proud to announce that her school, the Jung SuWon Martial Art Academy, has moved to a new address: 40480 Albrae St. in Fremont. This new location will allow Grandmaster Dr. Tae Yun Kim to reach even more students, as it's significantly larger than the previous location. "Our class sizes have increased dramatically in recent years, and I wanted to make sure that each student had the necessary room to run, hit, kick and practice. Crowded classes ...

Heavy patient loads and burnout have long been an unfortunate reality for nurses at hospitals nationwide. However, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing concluded that these problems can affect patient health by causing an increased risk of infection. The study surveyed 7,000 registered nurses working in 161 hospitals in Pennsylvania. The nurses were asked questions designed to track factors such as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and whether he or she felt a sense of personal accomplishment from the work. The study found that almost ...

Television dramas often portray the lives of those who work in dangerous jobs. The recent series "Chicago Fire" follows firefighters as they risk their lives to save others and limit property damage. Several years ago, the series "Chicago Code" was all about crime fighting and the dangers associated with law enforcement. While firefighting and law enforcement are dangerous professions, they are by no means the most dangerous jobs in Chicago. Less glamorous jobs are often where accidents occur and lives are lost. For example, a worker cleaning a ...

Under New York's 2009 "Leandra's Law," every person convicted of driving while intoxicated in New York, or DWI, is required to install an Ignition Interlocking Device (IID) on his or her car. However, the data shows that only three of every 10 people (23,000 people statewide) ordered to install the device have actually done so. While many have chosen simply to forgo driving, several DWI offenders have scoffed at court orders and continue to get behind the wheel of a car. What is an IID? An IID is a device that attaches to a vehicle's ignition system ...

Intellectual property might be in the form of trade secrets. This includes include any method, formula or information that creates a competitive benefit. Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the law protects a trade secret only to the extent that the owner has made "efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy." For this reason, it is imperative to demonstrate that your company recognized your specific formula, method or information as a trade secret. As a trade secret owner, you do not want to make the mistake of waiting until ...

Employers can minimize their exposure to liability in sexual harassment claims by implementing effective sexual discrimination training for supervisory and non-supervisory employees. Harassment in the workplace can result in drawn out litigation and vicarious liability for an employer when proper training and procedures are not in place. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful to discriminate against an individual, because of an individual's race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Sexual harassment is one form of sex discrimination, which can ...

The Washington State Patrol and the Washington Traffic Safety Commission have joined with municipal law enforcement agencies to implement a program known as "Target Zero." "Target Zero" (TZ) is a public safety-based education and awareness program with the stated goal of reducing the state's annual traffic fatality rate to zero by the year 2030. What is the program? The TZ program is designed to increase driver awareness of the most common causes of motor vehicle accidents in the state as well as the types of driver behaviors that contribute to ...

www.glamournailvending.com Glamour Nail Vending has developed a one of a kind product that everyone wants - and they have the sales history to prove it. The company have merged advanced technology with traditional vending to allow users to print nail art directly onto their nails in less than a minute. In 2012, their first year of sales, the company has already appointed distributors to 28 territories worldwide, with more being appointed each week. The nail industry had revenue of $7.3 billion in 2012 and it is looking even more attractive for 2013. With Glamour Nail ...

A large new collection of space photos taken at wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye and blocked by Earth's atmosphere has been released as a New Year's gift to the people of Earth by NASA and Penn State University. The images were captured by a telescope on board NASA's Swift satellite, whose science and flight operations are controlled by Penn State from the Mission Operations Center in State College, Pennsylvania, using the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, which resulted from Penn State's collaboration with the Mullard Space Science Laboratory of the University ...

For several years, neurologists at UCLA have been building a case that a link exists between pesticides and Parkinson's disease. To date, paraquat, maneb and ziram — common chemicals sprayed in California's Central Valley and elsewhere — have been tied to increases in the disease, not only among farmworkers but in individuals who simply lived or worked near fields and likely inhaled drifting particles. Now, UCLA researchers have discovered a link between Parkinson's and another pesticide, benomyl, whose toxicological effects still linger some 10 years after the chemical ...

The production of new neurons in the adult normal cortex in response to the antidepressant, fluoxetine, is reported in a study published online this week in Neuropsychopharmacology. The research team, which is based at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, Aichi, has previously demonstrated that neural progenitor cells exist at the surface of the adult cortex, and, moreover, that ischemia enhances the generation of new inhibitory neurons from these neural progenitor cells. These cells were accordingly named "Layer 1 Inhibitory Neuron ...

Researchers at Warwick Medical School have discovered that recurrent pregnancy loss can be due to a dysfunctional monthly fertility window. The study, led by Professor Jan Brosens and Professor Siobhan Quenby of the Division of Reproductive Health, sheds new light on the mechanisms that determine the timing and duration of the fertility window and how that may increase the chances of miscarriage. The release of the cytokine IL-33 and the activation of its receptor (ST2) in cells in the uterus induces an inflammatory response that controls the stage that we are familiar ...

Spanish researchers have traced the bacterial microbiota map in breast milk, which is the main source of nourishment for newborns. The study has revealed a larger microbial diversity than originally thought: more than 700 species. The breast milk received from the mother is one of the factors determining how the bacterial flora will develop in the newborn baby. However, the composition and the biological role of these bacteria in infants remain unknown. A group of Spanish scientists have now used a technique based on massive DNA sequencing to identify the set of bacteria ...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, January 4, 2013 -- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal that data culled from geosocial networks like the GPS traffic app Waze can help prevent traffic incidents with better deployment of police resources at the most accident prone areas. "Only now are we beginning to discover the potential in the huge amount of data collected daily," explains BGU researcher and Ph.D. student Michael Fire. "Studies of this kind, which monitor events such as traffic accidents over time, can help the police identify dangerous sections of roads ...

For almost 30 years, researchers have sought to identify a particular enzyme that is involved in regulating electron transport during photosynthesis. A team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich has now found the missing link, which turns out to be an old acquaintance. Photosynthesis sustains life on Earth by providing energy-rich compounds and the molecular oxygen that higher organisms depend on. The process is powered by sunlight, which is captured by "biochemical solar cells" called photosystems that are found in plants, algae and certain types of bacteria. ...