Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics believes in the finer things in life: candlelit baths, sharing showers, massages, and a world filled with perfume. To facilitate these values, the company produces a huge collection of soaps, shampoos, lotions, fragrances and other bath products that would "make their mums proud." Two of the original founders, Liz Bennett (nee Weir) and Mark Constantine, met in the UK in the late 1970s and together started a business called Herbal Hair and Beauty Clinic. In their search for a commercial retail outlet, Constantine discovered Anita ...

Award-winning international commodities merchant Standard Commodities needed a fresh, dynamic and professional website design that matched its reputation. Attractivo was contracted by experiential marketing agency, etouchme marketing, to design and build a brand new website with added functionalities to boost the company's online presence to the next level. Working in collaboration with the marketing agency, Attractivo's design team crafted a stunning web design for Standard Commodities. The website features youtube videos, enewsletter subscription, blog/news section, ...

Dahlin Group Architecture Planning has received the Green Business Award from Pleasanton, California's Chamber of Commerce, part of the Chamber's annual Community Service Awards. The Green Business Award recognizes businesses that promote sustainable environmental business practices throughout their organization for the benefit of employees, customers or the community. "The Chamber launched these awards in 1963 to recognize good people doing great things in the community," said April Mitchell, board chairman of the chamber. "Dahlin Group is now part of ...

Coming to the Las Vegas Strip, for most people, means finding a place to stay on the Strip. And that should not be surprising either. The Strip is where the excitement is, and everyone wants to be in the middle of it. But an ever growing percentage of people are looking for something more than just lights and glitter of the Strip. They are looking for something to match their Las Vegas dreams of luxury, and Las Vegas vacation home rentals offer exactly the right solution! Las Vegas vacation home rentals offer so many advantages, such as a private pool and spa. Guests can ...

Shirley You Jest! Book Awards upholds the belief that laughter can cure what ails 'ya. Presented by Liz D Publicity & Promotions, SYJ! honors books by self-published and traditionally published independent authors that "deliver the funny." The contest is open to fiction and non-fiction books that contain strong comedic and humorous elements. Both digital and print titles with 2011 and 2012 copyright dates are accepted June 1 - August 1, 2012. SYJ!'s panel of first round and finalist judges consists of well-read authors, humor writers, bloggers and book clubbers. ...

Marina Plastic Surgery has added a technology usually reserved for Hollywood movies. The new Vectra 3-D imaging unit allows Los Angeles plastic surgery patients to view photo simulations of how they might look following a variety of cosmetic procedures. More than 3 million Americans each year undergo some type of cosmetic surgery, from nose reshaping to liposuction, breast reduction or breast enlargement. Dr. Grant Stevens, founder of Marina Plastic Surgery, is one of the first Los Angeles plastic surgeons to use this ground-breaking technology. The compact, table-top ...

The luxurious awakening provided by the Zen Alarm Clock is part of the growing preference for things natural--natural foods, natural fibers, and now, natural acoustic sounds. Like organic tomatoes in your salad, the organic sounds of the Zen Alarm Clock's sweet acoustic chimes are truly a gourmet experience. What makes this gentle awakening experience so exquisite is the sound of the natural acoustic chime, which has been tuned to produce the same tones as the tuning forks used by musical therapists. According to the product's inventor, Steve McIntosh, "once you ...

The grand opening of Sorrento Heights, a new single-family detached home neighborhood in Sorrento Mesa, will take place Saturday, May 26. Home shoppers are invited to attend the grand opening event featuring free refreshments, model home tours, green room information and a prize drawing for a free iPad, available between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Located above Sorrento Valley on the mesas and hills that overlook the natural canyons of Los Penasquitos Canyon, Sorrento Heights is planned to bring 113 energy-efficient homes to the area. Pricing will be from the high $600,000s. ...

Segmation (www.segmation.com) has introduced SegPlay Mobile 2.0, available for free at the Apple iTunes Store (http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/segplay-mobile/id395127581?mt=8) and newly optimized for iPhone, iPad, and iPod. SegPlay Mobile 2.0 (http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/segplay-mobile/id395127581?mt=8) is the mobile app of SegPlay's Paint By Numbers software (http://www.segmation.com/products.asp), and lets players use their fingers like a paintbrush. Formerly sold for $1.99 at the Apple store, it's now available for free and is fully compatible with iPhone ...

Gracepoint Builders (Gracepoint Homes), a leading custom production builder in the Houston area, today announced that Gracepoint Builders and IHP have formed a partnership to create Gracepoint Holding Company. IHP is one of the nation's largest investment firms providing equity financing for residential development. The firm invests institutional capital in for-sale residential real estate projects throughout the United States. IHP and its investment partners have created neighborhoods and communities valued at more than $19 billion. Tom Cox, Jr. will serve as COO and ...

Green House Data, a leading data center service provider highly regarded for their energy efficient strategies in both cloud hosting and colocation solutions, announced today that their President, Shawn Mills, has been selected as a featured panel member during a session at Information Management Network's (IMN) Forum for "Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development for Data Centers". The panel will be discussing the return on investment that companies might expect when opting to build or retrofit a data center to meet a more sustainable business model. ...

Hamilton Law & Mediation (HLM) is a law firm focused on mediation and collaborative practice as the finest methods of resolving animal conflicts. Unlike other law firm in the animal conflict area, HLM takes pride in its ability to handle their "two and four legged" clients in a way that puts the animals interests first. At HLM, we are passionate about helping people solve their animal conflicts, without litigation's stressful courtroom byproducts. Helping people resolve their animal conflict is all we do. "My passion is to help people, in conflict ...

Neopost announced today the launch of its free postage rates calculator app. This new and unique app calculates the annual savings of a business if they switch from stamps to franking their mail. From April 30th Royal Mail increased the price of a 1st Class stamp from 46p to 60p, an increase of 30% and the price of a 2nd class stamp will raise from 36p to 50p an increase of 39%. For businesses still using stamps to send out their mail, franking is a cheaper and convenient alternative. Franking machine users receive a discount on every item of mail sent, saving at ...

Financial Spreads, the spread betting and CFD trading company, has reduced the spreads on 30 forex markets. The UK firm lets investors speculate on a wide range of forex markets. Financial Spreads does not charge any commissions or broker's fees, instead their charges are built into the 'spread', i.e. the difference between the sell price and the buy price. The wider the spread, the more it costs an investor to trade. To lower the cost of trading for investors, Financial Spreads has reduced the spreads on 30 forex markets irrespective of whether the investor is trading ...

Online reputation management is a major industry, and a major area of focus for large corporations. Many Fortune 500 companies spend huge amounts of marketing dollars on online reputation management, and even many smaller companies are beginning to enlist reputation defense services. According to a recent study from Microsoft, however, reputation management is hardly just a need for businesses; it is also an important consideration for individuals, and job seekers in particular. Microsoft has found that 70% of employers say they have, at some point, rejected a job applicant ...

WinADayCasino.com has just launched another one of its eye-popping, full-screen, one-of-a-kind casino games. This one's called Joker's Tricks. It's a 5 reel slots game with 20 paylines and a Free Spins bonus feature activated by the player. A Joker's Tricks slots tournament with a prize pool of over $8000 continues until May 27th. Every day until then, the player with the highest Joker's Tricks score that day will win $300. The second place player will receive $150, third prize is $100. There is no registration fee and players are automatically entered when they play ...

Two of the three vehicles recently billed as Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) were new hybrid models, underscoring the reliability of safety in smaller, economical cars that are hitting the market, according to Online Auto Insurance. The 2013 Malibu Eco, a midsize hybrid, and 2012 Prius C, a compact hybrid, both scored the highest-possible "good" rating overall that is required for Top Safety Pick distinction. The premium you pay can depend on auto insurance company ratings of the car you drive, so vehicles with better, ...

Vince Del Monte recently completed an intense Hypertrophy Bootcamp to both put on muscle and learn the theory and process of Hypertrophy muscle growth by experiencing it first hand. Led by Charles Poliquin, the bootcamp introduced the students to 15 different hypertrophy models for fast muscle growth. The students trained three times a day and targeted the same body part with three different hypertrophy workouts each day! Hypertrophy training is the process of building muscle through resistance training and advanced nutrition and supplementation strategies. Hyprtrophy ...

WASHINGTON -- A phase I clinical trial examining the safety of combining temsirolimus and capecitabine in advanced malignancies suggests the two agents can be given safely to patients. In addition, the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers conducting the study in cancer patients whose tumors have resisted multiple treatments say the combination demonstrates "promising evidence" of disease control and should be studied in a phase II trial. Their clinical findings and additional data from the study will be presented at the American Society of Clinical ...

VIDEO: This is a video showing and discussing results published in Nature from the BrainGate2 pilot clinical trial. Click here for more information. [Providence, R.I.] -- On April 12, 2011, nearly fifteen years after she became paralyzed and unable to speak, a woman controlled a robotic arm by thinking about moving her arm and hand to lift a bottle of coffee to her mouth and take a drink. That achievement is one of the advances in brain-computer interfaces restorative neurotechnology ...

Fotobabble, a leader in social media marketing solutions, announced the release of Fotobabble for Websites today, a new application that for the first time lets an organization run photo and audio-driven campaigns and promotions directly from any website. With Fotobabble for Websites brands and businesses can increase web traffic and audience engagement through the visual impact of photos, the emotion of voice and the power of social media. Everloop.com, the leading online social site for kids and tweens, selected Fotobabble for Websites to power its INSPIRE contest ...

In an ongoing clinical trial, a paralyzed woman was able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own – for the first time in nearly 15 years – by using her thoughts to direct a robotic arm. The trial, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, is evaluating the safety and feasibility of an investigational device called the BrainGate neural interface system. This is a type of brain-computer interface (BCI) intended to put robotics and other assistive technology under the brain's control. A report published today in Nature describes how two individuals – both ...

Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128 [1], is a peculiar massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It lies about 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur) and has the distinction of being the most prominent radio galaxy in the sky. Astronomers think that the bright nucleus, strong radio emission and jet features of Centaurus A are produced by a central black hole with a mass of about 100 million times that of the Sun. Matter from the dense central parts of the galaxy releases vast amounts of energy as ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both manmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics further poleward in that hemisphere, new research by a team of scientists shows. While stratospheric ozone depletion has already been shown to be the primary driver of the expansion of the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere, the researchers are the first to report that black carbon and tropospheric ozone are the most likely primary drivers of the tropical ...

In a study published today in Nature, researchers describe nine new genes that drive the development of breast cancer. This takes the tally of all genes associated with breast cancer development to 40. The team examined all the genes in the genomes of 100 cases of breast cancer. The mutated cancer-causing genes were different in different cancer samples, indicating that breast cancer is genetically very diverse. Understanding the consequences of this diversity will be important in progressing towards more rational treatment. Changes to DNA lie behind all cases of cancer. ...