Atlanta mechanic Express Oil Change & Service Center is proud to be a partner of the Atlanta Braves. To celebrate this partnership, certain locations of Georgia Express Oil Change & Service Centers provide customers with a unique promotion: when the Braves score 5 or more runs, you get that amount discounted from your full service oil change the next day. In short, when the Braves score, you score! The deal is this: when the Braves score 5 or more runs, that amount is discounted from the price of your full service oil change the next day at any participating ...

Quality eyewear retailer America's Best would like to encourage the public to undergo an eye exam, especially if they are a first-time eye care patient. There are many individuals who end up not seeking an eye exam until a problem arises. The optometrists at America's Best want to emphasize that the best way to avoid having a vision problem is to have your eyes checked as your doctor recommends, a minimum of once every two years for non-seniors. At America's Best Contacts and Eyeglasses, we encourage having your eyes examined annually to keep your eyeglass prescription ...

Eyeglasses retailer Eyeglass World wishes to raise awareness about UV rays damaging eyes. Most people are aware that UV rays produced by the sun and human sources can cause skin cancer, but too few people understand that UV rays can also harm their eyes, causing a host of problems. When people are outside during the day, their eyes are constantly being bombarded with UV rays, no matter how cloudy it is. UV rays are easily able to penetrate cloud cover, and they bounce off of hard and reflective surfaces to increase exposure. This constant exposure to UV light can ...

Atlanta exterminators Team Pest USA wish to warn pool owners about the potential for summer insect damage to swimming pools. Though pool owners are aware of the possibility of damage coming from water-borne pests like algae, most are unaware that both ants and termites can cause damage to your pool, especially during times of drought. Ants and termites can both cause damage to vinyl pool linings by trying to bite through them to reach the water inside. This damage can be difficult to notice until it is extensive because the holes the ants and termites make in the ...

The Atlanta orthopedic doctors at Southern Orthopaedic Specialists are proud to announce that they are official sponsors of the BB&T Atlanta Open for the third year. Sponsorship by the Atlanta orthopaedic clinic for the championships gives the Atlanta orthopedic doctors from Southern Orthopaedic Specialists the unique opportunity to provide medical care for the athletes, their families, and the tournament staff. This will be the third year that the Atlanta orthopedics clinic has provided both medical care and sponsorship to the BB&T Atlanta Open. "We ...

Atlanta-based staffing agency TRC Staffing Services, Inc., is pleased to announce the expansion of its TRC Professional Solutions sector. With more companies increasing their ranks, the demand for specialized recruitment has risen. TRC Professional Solutions has seen this demand and responded by adding additional dedicated recruiters to TRC Staffing Services, Inc., offices in two major metropolitan areas. These dedicated recruiters have been stationed in Austin, Texas, and the Triad area of North Carolina, which serves the cities of Greensboro, Winston Salem, and ...

Online masters degrees and postsecondary degrees portal Universities.com believes giving to charity is important. To this aim, they offer the opportunity for charities and individuals to suggest charities that should benefit from Universities.com's response rewards program. The response rewards program was created to encourage everyday people to discuss their feelings regarding postsecondary education so that others might be inspired to follow their own higher education dreams. The program offers two different choices as a reward for approved responses: either a free ...

The DFW Elite Toy Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas, is a treasure trove of rare, unusual, exquisite, and historically significant objects spanning the entire era of modern transportation. Indy 500 fans will take special delight in this summer's special exhibition of items that celebrate America's greatest race. The exhibit features an impressive collection of Indy race programs from 1935 to the present. The gem of the program collection is one from the 1958 race signed by many of drivers, the track owner and actress Shirley McClain, who presented the trophy to the winning ...

Cameleon Software, the global leader in product design, sales configuration, quotes, and proposals software, today announced preliminary results for the second quarter of 2012. (EUR Millions) Q2 2012 Q2 2011 % Software revenue 2,63 1,81 45% Services revenue 0,61 0,48 27% Total Revenue Q2 3,24 2,29 41% (EUR Millions) H1 2012 H1 2011 % Software revenue 3,90 3,42 14% Services revenue 1,27 1,01 26% Total Revenue H1 5,17 4,43 17% A Record Second Quarter with 41% Growth Provisional consolidated revenue stands at EUR3.24 million ($3.97 million USD) for the ...

The central hub of almost every modern business is its mailroom. Despite the advent of the Internet, physical mail still remains a major feature of business communications and goods still have to be mailed to clients. All this goes through the company mailroom, which has to handle external mail as well as the distribution of mail internally. The use of mailing equipment will help speed up your mailroom processes and increase the efficiency of your business. So what type of machinery should you consider in order to improve efficiency and increase productivity? Here are ...

Millions of teens are living with ADD/ADHD and a short attention span. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a neurological disorder that not only impacts attention span, but often causes challenges with impulse control and sustaining healthy relationships are seen as well. Saving the day for anyone living with ADD/ADHD, a new "Actions Hero" app focused on time management is being developed through an Indiegogo fundraising project. The Indiegogo A funding platform for creative projects, on Indiegogo is accepting donations of any amount as well as sponsorships ...

Car accidents can happen in seconds and result in serious injuries that can be life altering for the accident victim. The person involved in a car accident is often unsure of what steps should be taken immediately after an event of this type on the roadway. Driver's are often under the assumption that insurance will quickly pay all of the costs that arise after a car accident, and they are misguided, which can be an expensive undertaking. Los Angeles attorney Michael P. Ehline, Esq., of Ehline Law Firm PC, wants driver's and car accident victims to be aware of the real ...

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters company, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers in Family Law who have attained a high degree of peer recognition, meet ethical standards, and have demonstrated professional achievement in their field. The annual selections are made using a rigorous multi-phased process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, and independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area. Todd R. DeVallance has over a decade of experience handling high profile and complex family law matters. Todd has appeared on The Today ...

Got a trip planned to visit the US so you can "shop till you drop"? Visiting one of the top three spots - 5th Avenue in New York, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, or Sawgrass Mills Mall in South Florida? Or just middle America as in Omaha, Nebraska? Do what the sophisticated shopper is doing now, shopping ahead and taking advantage. The United States continues to be the premier destination for international consumers. According to the Commerce Department, tourists spent $153 billion in 2011 on US travel and related goods and services, a new record, up from $130 ...

RussianLoveMatch.com -- a leading Russian dating service that matches bachelors with single Russian and Ukrainian ladies -- is offering all clients a "Video Streaming Happy Hour" between 9am and 9pm Eastern Time on Sunday, July 15, 2012. During this offer, all clients with completed profiles will be able to watch any woman's video stream at 50% off. For the best value, Bronze members are encouraged to upgrade to any of the three available Premium Membership levels, as video and chat costs are lower for Premium Members. Clients can view video streams with or ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Despite the ever-louder drumbeat for sustainability and global efforts to advance environmental initiatives, Earth remains on a collision course with "unprecedented levels of damage and degradation." That's according to a new United Nations (U.N.) assessment that includes UC Santa Barbara researchers among its authors. The U.N. Environment Programme released its fifth Global Environmental Outlook report –– commonly known as GEO-5 –– in June, on the eve of the recent Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil. Produced over three ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 9, 2012 – A San Francisco State University biologist has released the initial results of her nationwide citizen science project to count bee populations and has found low numbers of bees in urban areas across America, adding weight to the theory that habitat loss is one of the primary reasons for sharp declines in the population of bees and other important pollinators. Now the researcher plans to add to her data -- which is now the largest single body of information on bee activity in North America -- by further comparing how bee populations are faring ...

A detailed picture of how Australia coped during the global financial crisis has been provided by the latest report from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, produced by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. This year's wide-ranging report has an emphasis on the implications of the global financial crisis and the health of Australians. A series of factsheets have been developed to explain key findings, including: Australian life satisfaction relatively stable through the GFC ...

A naturally occurring protein called TLR1 plays a critical role in protecting the body from illnesses caused by eating undercooked pork or drinking contaminated water, according to new research from the University of Southern California (USC). The discovery may help create more effective oral vaccines for infections of the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems and already has launched an examination of how TLR1 is linked to inflammatory bowel disease, says R. William DePaolo, assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine ...

John Pandolfi keeps his optimism alive despite the grim scientific evidence he confronts daily that the world's coral reefs are in a lot of trouble – along with 81 nations and 500 million people who depend on them. The world-renowned coral scientist from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and University of Queensland has traced the story of the world's reefs over more than 50 million years and is deciphering delicate signals from the past to reveal what doomed them in previous extinctions – and how this compares with today. This knowledge is priceless ...

San Diego, July 10, 2012 – Cylene Pharmaceuticals today announced that research collaborators at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in Melbourne, Australia have established, for the first time, that RNA Polymerase I (Pol I) activity is essential for cancer cell survival and that its inhibition selectively activates p53 to kill tumors. Published today in Cancer Cell, the findings show that Cylene's Pol I inhibitor, CX-5461, selectively destroys cancer by activating p53 in malignant but not in normal cells. The researchers repeated these studies with in vivo ...

Is it possible to cut HIV transmission by using antiretroviral treatment? A collection of new articles published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, in conjunction with the HIV Modelling Consortium, addresses this pressing question. The PLoS Medicine articles provide insights into the feasibility of interventions, their potential epidemiological impact and affordability, and recent scientific observational studies and community trials, which will support evidence-based decision-making on the use of antiretroviral treatment to prevent HIV transmission. The background ...

Treatment is delivered faster when emergency medical services (EMS) personnel notify hospitals a possible stroke patient is en route, yet pre-notification doesn't occur nearly one-third of the time. That's according to two separate Get With The Guidelines®– Stroke program studies published in American Heart Association journals. The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association recommends EMS notify hospitals of incoming stroke patients to allow stroke teams to prepare for prompt evaluation and treatment. Quick response is vital for stroke patients, particularly ...

Tiny magnetic particles may help doctors track cells in the body to better determine if treatments work, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, an American Heart Association journal. Researchers showed that injecting immune cells containing magnetic particles into the bloodstream was safe and did not interfere with cell function. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can then track the cells moving through the body. "This could change how we assess new treatments affecting inflammation and the outcome of a heart attack or heart failure," ...

CHICAGO – In studies examining the risk of adverse outcomes after receipt of the influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, infants exposed to the vaccine in utero did not have a significantly increased risk of major birth defects, preterm birth, or fetal growth restriction; while in another, study researchers found a small increased risk in adults of the nervous system disorder, Guillain-Barre syndrome, during the 4 to 8 weeks after vaccination, according to 2 studies in the July 11 issue of JAMA. In the first study, Björn Pasternak, M.D., Ph.D., of the Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, ...