Creative Plan Designs, Ltd. (CPD), a leading independent retirement consulting firm, was honored with the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Excellence in Workplace Effectiveness and Flexibility. This is the third consecutive year CPD has received the award. This prestigious award is part of the national When Work Works project, along with national partners, Families and Work Institute (FWI), The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and the National Association of Mothers' Centers (NAMC). The award recognizes the top 20 percent of businesses nationwide in terms ...

Appliances have dramatically changed the manner in which countless families live their lives every single day. From safely storing food for long periods of time to keeping one's dishes and clothes clean, these devices are often the cornerstone of countless chores, but it will never take much for refrigerators, washers, dryers, stoves, or any other appliances to fall into disrepair. In order to get these homes back to running smoothly, Los Angeles Viking appliance repair company, AM PM, is now offering a full line of appliance services with a 10 percent discount on labor ...

Professional dental treatments may seem like an expensive proposition for countless families throughout the country, but there are now more options than ever when it comes to finding affordable and comprehensive dental insurance plans. Finding an experienced and friendly dentist that not only accepts all of the leading insurance policies, but also provides personalized and effective services, can be a much more difficult task. Torrance dentist, Dr. Robert Mondavi, is now accepting all Blue Shield dental insurance plans for a full line of treatments and services. While ...

Dr. Parsa Zadeh DDS, Beverly Hills dentist, now offers Lumineers to patients who are seeking to restore their smiles. Lumineers are a patented variety of porcelain veneers designed to cover your teeth without the need for extensive enamel removal. Lumineers can remedy the appearance of a variety of dental problems, such as badly stained teeth that will not respond to traditional dental whitening methods, misshapen teeth, teeth with moderate spacing problems, or worn teeth. Lumineers are different from traditional porcelain veneers because they are thinner. Traditional ...

Dr. Parsa Zadeh, Beverly Hills gum lift expert, offers his groundbreaking Gumlift procedure for patients who suffer from gummy smiles. This treatment is not a single procedure; rather, it is a comprehensive treatment plan that may involve several cosmetic and/or surgical procedures for gummy smiles. A gummy smile can be caused by one or more factors, such as a jaw bone that is too large, causing the gum line to appear bigger than normal. The gum lift procedure is so successful because it utilizes the treatments that directly address the cause of the patient's gummy smile. ...

Partner Randy Sorrels, of the Houston law firm of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend, was recognized as Best Lawyers' 2013 Houston Medical Malpractice Law -- Plaintiffs "Lawyer of the Year." He is the only lawyer handling medical malpractice cases in the Houston metro area who was selected for this distinction. In addition to Mr. Sorrels being recognized, two other partners at the firm were also selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2013. Attorneys Nick Nichols, Randall Sorrels and Benny Agosto Jr. were listed ...

Drivers who ignore New York's ban on texting while driving are more likely to be caught now that legislators have strengthened the state law on distracted driving. The new law, which took effect in July 2011, made texting while driving a primary offense. As a result, New York law enforcement officers are able to stop drivers solely because they are texting behind the wheel. Motorists received 20,958 tickets for texting while driving (and similar violations) in the 12 months since the law was enacted. In the year before the new law took effect, New York law enforcement ...

As technology improves communication, it affects our lives. This better technology and improved ease of use is even influencing child custody cases, as evidenced by the increase in virtual visitation rights granted to noncustodial parents. Virtual visitation is a way for parents to interact with their children through utilities like Skype or other Internet-based visual media. In the past, face-to-face meetings were the only type of parenting time available; but now parents are using technology more and more to supplement traditional, in-person interaction with their ...

A drunk driving conviction is punished severely, even for first time offenders in North Carolina. Fines, prison time and loss of driving privileges are in the future for both military personnel and civilians caught driving while impaired and later convicted of criminal charges. But, for members of the military, the consequences of a DWI do not stop there. A drunk driving conviction can end a military career, even before it starts. Those considering enlisting and those already in the military who have been charged with DWI should seek the assistance of an experienced ...

Residents of Pennsylvania may be surprised to learn that while neurologists and psychologists have made great strides in brain science in the past few decades, much about the brain still remains a mystery. Traumatic brain injuries can vary in severity, depending on how the injury occurred, and can also vary between people. Two soldiers may both suffer brain injuries when the Humvee they are riding in hits a bomb, but they may each experience those injuries differently. Symptoms of a TBI include short-term memory loss, amnesia, personality changes, and loss of the ability ...

Sheraton Atlanta Perimeter Hotel North, located near Dunwoody, GA, announces a special promotion for guests attending the 42nd Atlanta Pride Festival. Taking place October 13-14, 2012 at Piedmont Park, the festival is the largest Pride event in the southeast. Festivities will include a parade, marches, festival market, and live entertainment featuring Indigo Girls and Amy Ray. The Pride Weekend package at this Sheraton includes: - Rates from $109 per night for a traditional room - Cook-to-Order breakfast for two - 2 drink vouchers to be used at the Park Grill Lounge ...

The Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Airport Hotel (North) offers nearby lodging to visitors attending the 2012 Women Thou Art Loosed conference. Presented by Bishop T.D. and First Lady Serita Jakes, the event will take place at Philips Arena October 4-6, 2012. Other featured speakers will include: - Pastor Sheryl Brady - Dr. Cindy Trimm - Pastor Paula White Women Thou Art Loosed first began as a Sunday School curriculum, and has transformed into a best-selling book, stage play, award winning movie, GRAMMY -nominated CD, and a national conference that has drawn more than ...

We all have occasional stress in our lives and some will suffer more than others. Stress can compromise your career and financial success, romantic life, and your sense of well-being. Stress reduction techniques can be very beneficial in all aspects of your daily living and physical wellness. Understanding our beliefs and emotions is the first key to understanding who we are and how we are presenting ourselves to the world. The next step, after realizing what beliefs and emotions we want to change, is to use these well researched modalities to bring about the desired change. Daniel ...

The Jay Vonada Trio will be releasing its new CD "Groovin' It" on Thursday November 1. The CD was recorded in June of 2012 at WVIA studios in Pittston Pennsylvania and recorded by George Graham. The CD contains five originals by Jay, two originals by Kevin Lowe and the reworked standard "Where or When" by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, arranged by Alex Sell. Jay has many different groups including duos of trombone and keyboard or trombone and guitar called swing-nova. These groups perform in many restaurants, nursing homes and assisted living communities. ...

Chris (FL) came to Blue Tax with a debt to the IRS for roughly $25,000. He was in immediate danger of the IRS collecting on him. The experts at Blue Tax knew that they needed to get Chris on a payment plan right away to prevent him from getting levied or garnished while the Blue Tax team worked on a different resolution. The Blue Tax team made an immediate goal of keeping this taxpayer out of collections while the Blue Tax experts worked on a suitable resolution. Blue Tax understood that Chris was in a hardship situation but his financial circumstances did not demonstrate ...

Today marks the first day of National Seafood Month, a yearly ritual Joe's Crab Shack embraces with open claws. This year, Joe's invited everyone to the party, asking its more than 600,000 Facebook fans and email subscribers how they like to celebrate seafood. The Joe's survey revealed more than 75 percent of fans eat seafood at least once a month and when they do, crab is their favorite, beating out lobster, shrimp and clams. Joe's fans are not alone - the average American ate 15 pounds of fish and shellfish in 2011, which adds up to 4.7 billion pounds of seafood annually, ...

Vienna, Austria, 30 September 2012 – Two new studies presented at the ESMO 2012 Congress in Vienna, Austria show how improvements in breast cancer treatments are making it possible for more women to conserve their breasts following therapy, but raise concerns about whether enough women are being offered these approaches. Prof Michael Gnant, a surgical oncologist from Vienna's Medical University, who was not involved in the studies, commented: "Clearly, advances in interdisciplinary preoperative approaches have contributed to the revolution in breast surgery that has provided ...

VIENNA, Austria, 30 September 2012 -- The results of a new phase III trial show that crizotinib, a targeted therapy, is a more effective treatment than standard chemotherapy for patients with advanced, ALK-positive lung cancer, researchers said at the ESMO 2012 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Vienna. Rearrangements of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene are found in about 5% of all lung cancers. In previous uncontrolled studies, crizotinib has been shown to induce significant clinical responses in patients with advanced ALK-positive lung ...

VIENNA, Austria, 30 September 2012 – New insights on the global fight to prevent cancers were presented during the ESMO 2012 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Vienna. The studies highlight the challenges of overcoming misunderstandings about how important lifestyle factors are in reducing cancer risk. "These studies highlight the fact that a large proportion of the European population does not particularly like the idea of 'self-responsibility' for personal cancer prevention --that is, changing their habits and lifestyle accordingly. Rather, they ...

VIENNA, Austria, 30 September 2012 – Several new first-in-man studies for drugs targeted against a range of cancers were released at the ESMO 2012 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Vienna. "These studies represent our first glance at some of the drugs that may improve cancer treatment in coming years," said Prof Ahmad Awada, head of the medical oncology clinic at Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, chair of the ESMO 2012 Developmental Therapeutics track. "Today's findings highlight the ways that clinical research is working on cancer therapies ...

Feature sensitive re-sampling of point set surfaces is an important and challenging task in many computer graphics and geometric modeling applications. Professor MIAO Yongwei and his group at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, set out to tackle this problem. Based on regular sampling of a Gaussian sphere and the mapping of surface normals onto the Gaussian sphere, they have presented an adaptive re-sampling framework for point set surfaces. The proposed re-sampling scheme can generate non-uniformly distributed discrete sample ...

Recently, a mysterious seed fern, Lepidopteris baodensis sp. nov., dating to more than 251 million years ago (Ma), was discovered at the Baijiagou of Baode, Shanxi, China, from the Upper Permian Sunjiagou Formation. This discovery completely changed the understanding of the stratigraphic distribution of the genus Lepidopteris in China and promoted the taxonomic study of late Paleozoic plants. Since Schimper erected the genus Lepidopteris in 1869, its epidermal structure of subepidermal swellings (formerly called "blisters") had long been an unsolved mystery. Excitingly, ...

The Saint James Band with their Americana folk rock and roots influences, combine intricate finger picking; slide guitar and twangy, hard-driven, electric power chords. They will remind you of Neil Young, they will remind you of Eric Clapton. They will make you think good thoughts and feel good about yourself and your life, which is exactly what frontman /bandleader George Castrinos (vocals/lead guitar) wants this project to do. And it's that feel good vibe and energy that makes them a natural opener for the dynamic and charismatic Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at ...

Step back in time and take in the atmosphere of the doom and gloom the poor unfortunate residents of the workhouse would have felt from the moment they stepped through the door. "Hush-a-bye baby, on a tree top. When you grow old, your wages will stop. When you have spent the little you made. First to the poorhouse and then to the grave."...... This rhyme tells the story of many a working man's life in the 19th Century. The rather elegant building in Allhallowgate, standing in grounds graced with flower beds, trees, lilacs and even a passion flower, seems far ...

All Pro Science, Inc. (APS) is proud to announce the addition of James-Michael Johnson and T.J. Ward, both of the Cleveland Browns to Team APS. They join an already impressive group of top athletes such as NFL greats, Bryan Hall, Dante Rosario and Jason Kelce. MLB All Stars Troy Tulowitski and Mike Napoli are also among the Team APS notable athletes. APS athletes are not paid endorsers of the product. The athletes themselves often approach the company in hopes of becoming part of its natural organic growth and lifestyle. "We offer the best for those that want nothing ...