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 ...

A new generation is living their life online - not teenagers, but today's seniors. More than ever, they're using technology to stay socially connected, according to research from Revera, a Canadian leader in Retirement Living Homes and senior care and services. In Canada, 27% of seniors 75-plus are now online, up from 5% in 2000 (Statistics Canada). In the U.S., fully one-third of this age group (34%) is online (Pew Research Center). The Revera Report on Tech-Savvy Seniors found that among these online seniors: • 53% use social networking sites like Facebook • ...

David Neagle announces his next live event, Breaking Free Live Experience—a 3.5-day conference intended for business professionals who are serious about generating more wealth, growing their businesses, and improving their lives and relationships. Even though the event is partly based on creating more income and opportunity in business, Neagle says that this time Breaking Free Live Experience will concentrate on changing prescribed rules we have about money and relationships. When asked about why these common rules should be broken, Neagle responded, "A lot ...

New Leadership Learning Center, Inc. (NLLC), formerly New Light Leadership Coalition, Inc., released The Leadership Workbook: A Practical Guide to Self-Development for Emerging Young Leaders to provide guidance and inspiration to aspiring youth and student leaders. The highly anticipated second edition of 2001's Youth Leadership Development Workbook: A Guide for Emerging Youth Leaders, this new title offers an expanded and updated take on leadership for a new generation. "What makes this book standout above the myriad of existing student leadership books...is ...

Premiere Agency Based in Northborough, MA to Represent Lori Leigh Designs Earring Chalets in NH, MA, ME, CT, RI and VT Florence, KY Geoff Ficke, President of international Consumer Product Development and Branding Consulting firm Duquesa Marketing announced today that his group has appointed B.L. Rogers Associates to handle sales of Lori Leigh Designs Earring Chalets in the New England states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut and Maine. "B.L. Rogers Associates has a strong history of success with luxury fashion accessory and ...

While many of us have heard the phrase "statute of limitations," we may not understand its legal meaning. Put simply, a statute of limitations prevents a legal cause of action from being brought after a certain number of years. The statute of limitations applies to the civil justice and criminal justice worlds, and the purpose behind the law is that individuals should be allowed to continue to live their lives without fear of litigation or prosecution after so much time has passed after an incident occurs. Recently, the statute of limitations in Kansas that applies ...

The Kansas Court of Appeals recently ruled the imposition of lifetime post-release supervision for a sex offender who committed a low-grade felony is unconstitutional. The court compared the recidivist statutes for sex offenders to the corresponding rules for murderers and found "even murderers are not treated so harshly." With that finding, the court concluded that the lifetime post-release supervision of a young Kansas man violated the Eighth Amendment's protection from cruel and unusual punishment. The court's ruling stems from a case that began in 2009. ...

Most Indiana drivers have seen someone behind the wheel of a car, holding a cellphone and seemingly oblivious to much of what is going on around them. Some drivers would admit to engaging in this behavior themselves. Most people are probably not aware of the dangers of distracted driving and therefore are not motivated to improve their driving habits, but the Governors Highway Safety Association hopes to change that with a new policy on distracted driving. Recently the GHSA adopted a new policy supporting a ban on handheld cellphone use for all drivers. Presently only ...

BKD Forensics & Valuation Services, a division of BKD, LLP, is pleased to announce that Shauna Woody-Coussens will be presenting at the Kansas Association of Property & Casualty Insurance Companies Annual Convention. Her presentation, "Insurance Fraud Developments and Issues" will take place on Wednesday, October 3 from 12:45-3:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel, Overland Park, KS. Shauna's forensic investigative experience includes fraud investigations for internally identified company matters, in response to inquiries by third parties and regulatory bodies, ...

D&J Sports is pleased to announce it now has the Swim Stuff swim parkas in stock. With the colder months approaching, it becomes even more important for swimmers to keep warm on the sidelines. Heading into the water and then spending time outside the pool between races and practice sessions can be frigid, even when the temperatures aren't too cold. With the use of these swim parkas, swimmers are able to enjoy warmth without having to go into the locker room and get dressed. This is especially important if they will be getting back into the pool again. The Swim Stuff ...