Choice Hotels Europe, the company behind the Comfort, Quality and Clarion brands in Europe and part of Choice Hotels International, one of the largest and most successful lodging franchisors in the world, has launched a promotion enabling members of topbonus, airberlin's worldwide frequent flyer programme, to earn double miles when they stay at participating Choice Hotels properties. Until September 19, 2012, topbonus members who present their topbonus card when checking-in will earn double topbonus award miles with every qualifying stay at all participating Choice Hotels ...

British Airways will be rewarding customers who stay in the UK to cheer on Team GB and Paralympics GB. The cashback rewards on holidays are for travel after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and in line with specific athlete wins. British Airways will feature a new offer based on a chosen athlete, valid for a limited period and in line with their schedule in the London 2012 Games. Each offer will also have a money back incentive dependent on the performance of the athlete. Customers can book an offer via the dedicated campaign page on ba.com and later ...

Drawing from the magical colors of the Mediterranean, Lipsi Cosmetics has a goal to create not only the highest quality beauty products, but also produce them in a manner that's cruelty-free. "We do not and will not exploit animals for testing our products, as there are many ways to test cosmetics in a humane way," said Caite Pywar, co-founder of Lipsi Cosmetics. Alternative methods include the use of cell and skin tissue cultures, corneas from eye banks, and sophisticated computer and scientific models that allow researchers to see how a human would react ...

Trafalgar (www.trafalgar.com), the Insider of Guided Vacations, is thrilled to announce the launch of their 2013 Asia brochure, with trips heading to China, Vietnam, Cambodia and now Japan, as well as extensions to Tibet, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Featuring some of Trafalgar's most incredible inclusions, the new brochure lets guests uncover the wonders of the Orient while experiencing Trafalgar's exclusive Insider Highlights, like Be My Guest Dining and Local Specialties. To celebrate the launch of the new brochure, Trafalgar is offering savings of up to $1,200 off any ...

Marketing lesson number one: never assume you know what your target market wants. Ask them, and you will find out for certain. Marketing lesson number two: tailor your offer to your customers needs. That is exactly what the owners of the popular Indian fashion website, www.gravity-fashion.com, have done in preparation for this years Raksha Bandhan festival. The Gravity Fashion.com CEO Hiren Patel explains - How many brothers do you know who are facing the difficult task of deciding what to buy for their sisters? Men are not always the best at shopping, especially when ...

Cobb County, Georgia Police Department took delivery of 187 Rocket wireless vehicle routers on June 13, 2012. These wireless routers are continuing to be installed in all Cobb County Police cars over the next month, and will provide 4G Connectivity on the Verizon 4G network for all Cobb County police vehicles. "We took delivery of the Rockets recently," stated Lt. Stuart VanHoozer with the Cobb County Police Department. "I found everything to be in order and delivered as promised. Overall, to this point, this transaction has gone well and I look forward ...

So there is this semi-new and extremely popular social network called Pinterest. If you don't know, Pinterest in a virtual pinboard. What? A virtual pinboard. Seriously, what?? It's a website were mostly women swap pictures of things they like. Planning a wedding, decorating your dream home and looking for a new wardrobe are just a few ways to use Pinterest. You can create different categorized pinboards. A wedding pinboard, dream home pinboard, new wardrobe pinboard, etc. Other people on Pinterest will have similiar pinboards. You can search for them and repin the pictures ...

In the ever-changing world of ours, all the latest technological gadgets and apps are taking us by storm, which makes it quite a puzzling task to choose the one that fulfills our needs. Fortunately, the tech-friendly company, Genie9 always thinks ahead, and puts forward innovative solutions for our day to day problems. The latest product is one that every Android user ought to have. After conducting much research, it is proven that $30 Billion worth of smartphones are lost every year in the US alone which immediately makes one think of the amount of data stored on those ...

Author Bob Miller releases his latest book on July 25. Titled Abyss of Consequences, the book contains chapters on many well-known personalities. Miller's perceptive, no-holds-barred and often-controversial writing will evoke a range of emotions in the reader: empathy, disdain, horror, amusement, appreciation, awe and fascination among others, depending on the subject of each chapter. Miller's writing is well researched and persuasive, while leaving the reader in no doubt as to the author's opinions. Readers will be just as intrigued by the characters Miller clearly dislikes ...

NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The centrifuge is a NASA and commercial industry collaboration, and will be housed in the NanoRacks facility. The small Gravitational Biology Lab will allow biological experimentation in artificial gravity -- from zero gravity to twice Earth's normal gravity -- for prolonged periods of time. The new facility will provide environmental control, lighting, data transfer, commanding, ...

JumpArticles.com, the free article marketing directory, has continued to gain popularity among SEOprofessionals. While most article directories limit keyword anchor text linking within the author's box, JumpArticles.com breaks this trend by allowing keyword linking within the body of the article. "Many SEO professional are frustrated with most article marketing websites because of the limitations of adding the keyword linkingonly within the author's box," says Sam Jones, Editor at JumpArticles.com. "With the recent Google Penguin updates, SEO experts require ...

H. Ross Ford, president and CEO of TCN Worldwide, is proud to announce MAXIMUSalliance as a strategic partner and a sponsor of the TCN Worldwide 2012 Fall Conference to be held in Las Vegas this October. This relationship is part of TCN Worldwide's ongoing effort to provide all of its members with access to high quality and innovative services on a favorable or reduced pricing basis. Each strategic partnership focuses on tools that support our member firms, their clients, and our 800 plus brokers and salespeople. Established over a decade ago, MAXIMUSalliance is a performance-driven ...

MADISON – Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections that could give computers a huge boost in speed and energy efficiency. The team published its findings on July 22, 2012 in Nature Photonics. At just 2 micrometers in height – smaller than the width of a human hair – the surface-emitting laser's vastly lower profile could make it cheaper and easier for manufacturers to integrate high-speed optical data connections into the microprocessors powering the ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – July 23, 2012 – Ever wonder how the human brain, which is constantly bombarded with millions of pieces of visual information, can filter out what's unimportant and focus on what's most useful? The process is known as selective attention and scientists have long debated how it works. But now, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have discovered an important clue. Evidence from an animal study, published in the July 22 online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience, shows that the prefrontal cortex is involved in a previously unknown ...

VIDEO: Many animals spend time together in large groups not because they enjoy each other's company, but rather because it lowers their own chances of being eaten should an uninvited guest... Click here for more information. Many animals spend time together in large groups not because they enjoy each other's company, but rather because it lowers their own chances of being eaten should an uninvited guest arrive on the scene—or so the theory goes. Now, researchers who have ...

VIDEO: This shows Natterer's bat catching a pair of copulating flies (black circle) from the cowshed ceiling and a Natterer's bat attacking an ultrasonic loudspeaker that plays fly copulation buzzes in... Click here for more information. If you are a fly living with bats in a cowshed, sex really could be the death of you. That's according to a study in the July 24th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, showing that bats eavesdrop on the sounds of fly sex ...

Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Functional neurologic abnormalities due to prenatal alcohol exposure are common A new study has examined heavy alcohol exposure during pregnancy using population-based data in Chile. Approximately 80 percent of the children examined had one or more abnormalities associated with alcohol exposure. Functional neurologic impairment was the most frequent and sometimes only sign of alcohol exposure. Most children who are exposed to large amounts of alcohol while in the womb do not go on to develop fetal alcohol syndrome ...

Contact: Marguerite Beck marbeck@wakehealth.edu 336-716-2415 Wake Forest School of Medicine Ralph Hingson, Sc.D., M.P.H. rhingson@mail.nih.gov 301-443-1274 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research When campuses and their surrounding communities can join forces to stop alcohol abuse U.S. college students typically drink more than their non-college peers and are slow to 'mature out' of their harmful drinking patterns. A new study examines a combined community-level and campus-level approach ...

Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Disinhibition/drinking differences between African-American and European-American youth African American adolescents drink less than European American adolescents. A new study examines racial differences in disinhibition. Results indicate that European American youth have higher levels of sensation seeking while African American youth have higher levels of impulsivity. Compared to European American adolescents, African American adolescents are more likely to abstain from alcohol, drink less frequently, and engage in ...

Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Alcoholism and HIV infection have different effects on visuomotor procedural memory processes Visuomotor procedural memory processes include driving a car, riding a bike, and using a computer mouse. This study examined the separate and combined injurious effects of chronic alcoholism and HIV infection upon visuomotor procedural memory processes. Results indicate the two conditions differently affect the processes involved in procedural learning and memory of visuomotor information. The different effects on memory processes ...

Liver cancer is the third leading cancer killer worldwide and new treatments are urgently needed. This study shows that loss of a regulatory molecule called microRNA-122 leads to liver cancer. The findings suggest that developing a drug that restores microRNA-122 levels might offer a new way to treat this deadly disease. COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study shows that loss of a small RNA molecule in liver cells might cause liver cancer and that restoring the molecule might slow tumor growth and offer a new way to treat the disease. The animal study was led by researchers ...

A clinical study in a remote region of southwest Uganda has demonstrated the feasibility of using a health campaign to rapidly test a community for HIV and simultaneously offer prevention and diagnosis for a variety of other diseases in rural and resource-poor settings of sub-Saharan Africa. At the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., the first results of this study, called the "Sustainable East Africa Research in Community Health (SEARCH) Collaboration," will be described by doctors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco ...

In January, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidelines on dosing of an HIV medication used to treat people infected with both HIV and tuberculosis (TB) because of a potential interaction between two of the main drugs used to treat each disease. The drug rifampin, used for treating TB, can lower levels of the HIV medicine efavirenz, so the FDA recommended that patients who weigh more than 50 kg (110 pounds) and who are taking both medications should get 30 percent larger doses of efavirenz (an increase from 600 mg to 800 mg). Now, a new ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Watching videos on YouTube may be a new way to show the treatment for a common cause of vertigo, which often goes untreated by physicians, according to a study published in the July 24, 2012, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is an inner ear disorder that is a common cause of dizziness. "This type of vertigo can be treated easily and quickly with a simple maneuver called the Epley maneuver, but too often the maneuver isn't used, and people are told to 'wait ...

EDITOR'S PICK MiR-122 micromanages liver function MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously encoded RNAs that regulate the stability or translation of mRNA molecules, and emerging research suggests that they have diverse roles in normal physiology and disease. In this issue, two groups investigated the role of the predominant liver miRNA, miR-122. Ann-Ping Tsou and colleagues from National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan, and a team led by Kalpana Ghoshal, from Ohio State University generated mouse models of MiR-122 loss of function, and determined that the molecule was critically ...