Duquesa Marketing Founder and Expert to Discuss Personality Traits to Success Florence, KY Nancy Ficke, General Manager, announced today that her Branding and Product Development firm Duquesa Marketing has scheduled another in a series of national radio interviews for Company President and Founder Geoff Ficke. "Geoff Ficke will appear on The Focus 1260 Show with Host Marsha Raye April 2nd at 11:15 am CT", said Mrs Ficke. "The discussion will be about the opportunity to take hold of your life and career options by exploring Entrepreneurial opportunities ...

HD Treatment Center (http://hdtreatmentcenter.com), which offers a painless and permanent treatment option for patients with hemorrhoidal disease through a direct microcurrent technology cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, has announced the release of a podcast on the treatment and technology used at HD Treatment Center to treat hemorrhoids. In the podcast, Dr. Larry Fusco, lead physician at HD Treatment Center, discusses the details of the direct microcurrent technology including its implementation in treatment, its safety and its long-term healing effects. The ...

Skinit, the pioneer creators of protective personalized solutions for consumer electronic devices, introduces skins and other upcoming accessories, such as iPhone 4/4S cases, licensed with King Features' Betty Boop and Popeye Designs images. With seven Betty Boop and eight Popeye designs, fans have a variety of images to choose from to skin everything from mobile phones and MP3 players to bedroom walls. "We strive to give our customers a diverse range of designs for skinning their electronic devices - and even walls," says Lewis Chang, Skinit's Vice President ...

William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that Kelliann Miranda-Baltimore has joined the university as an admissions counselor and financial aid coordinator. In her position, she will monitor Institutional Student Information Records (ISIR), oversee student completion of FASFA forms and assist in the admissions recruitment process of prospective university students. A 2011 graduate, Miranda-Baltimore served in the admissions department for work study purposes for more than three years. She ...

A Romantic program by the Young Symphonic Ensemble, leading violist Hsin-Yun Huang and competition winners Eric Zhang and Aya Terki celebrates the 18th annual Discovery Concert and Benefit Gala for the Children's Orchestra Society. The Lincoln Center concert at Alice Tully Hall on May 12th showcases the young musicians and Ms. Huang in Brahm's Double Concerto, Bartok's Viola Concerto and Tchaikovsky. This year's winners of the annual Discovery Competition, which is judged by a jury of professional concert artists, are high school seniors on Long Island: Cellist Aya Terki ...

Who's Bad, a globally-known Michael Jackson tribute band, will be performing at the OutRaleigh Festival (www.outraleigh.org) on Saturday, May 5, 2012. OutRaleigh is a program of the LGBT Center of Raleigh. The free concert will begin at 6 p.m. on the main stage at City Plaza in downtown Raleigh, N.C. Who's Bad (www.whosbadmusic.com) is the only tribute band that was created before Michael Jackson's passing. Native to North Carolina, The band was founded in 2004 with its first performance occurring in Chapel Hill. Since then, Who's Bad has played to sold-out audiences ...

Taking place on the 8th May at the Sandton Sun in Johannesburg, SA, the Cloud Computing World Forum Africa will now host two seminar streams during the show's afternoon session. Stream A will provide attendees with an introduction to cloud computing business models and strategies, with speakers including the CEO of Kenya ICT Board, Paul Kukubo tackling subjects such as cloud computing in the public sector; while Stream B will give a technical view of cloud, with speakers including Yolisa Skwintshi, Head of IT Development of First National Bank, presenting topics such ...

Laura A. Schoppe, president of Fuentek, LLC (http://www.fuentek.com/), a local consulting firm that provides intellectual property (IP) and technology transfer services, has announced that the firm has received two awards for their work for NASA from the Carolina Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Fuentek received an Excellence Award for the NASA Glenn Research Center 2011 technology transfer calendar and a Merit Award for the Innovative Partnerships Office website at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at the awards ceremony held on March 29 at ...

b-pack keeps ensuring better savings for its customers by simplifying its clients requisition process with Easy Cart, an innovation that enables users to search for an article from any website, including major e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay, Newegg.com or Best Buy. With Easy Cart, buyers can automatically compare articles without leaving b-pack's eProcurement solution. In addition, when a requester adds an item into its shopping cart, it is directly integrated to the procurement process within the application. As a result, the requisition form is automatically ...

Today people are becoming more aware of the long-lasting effects of childhood sexual abuse and the havoc it can wreak in a survivor's life. But when we say"sexual abuse," we usually mean an adult victimizing a child. What happens when the predator is another youth? Child-on-child sexual abuse is a little talked about subject in which sexual activity occurs between a child victim and another child or adolescent perpetrator. In such cases there is no adult sexual involvement, but there is a level of coercion, as the abusers typically use force, threats, or emotional ...

Coldstat Refrigeration has recently been named an official member of Manitowoc's new STAR Service program for "outstanding aftermarket service and support." Through this program, Coldstat, a long-time Factory-Authorized Service Provider for Manitowoc Beverage and Manitowoc Ice, commits itself to the high standards of customer service and support that fall under the STAR program mandate, and agrees contractually to adhere to its strict principles. The STAR initiative will apply to all Manitowoc Foodservice product lines. Companies qualify as Factory-Authorized ...

International superstar entertainer Tommy the Clown is bringing his very own battle night back home to the city of angels. Starting out with the open casting call and leading into the intensity of live auditions, Tommy the Clown's Battle Night will eventually showcase face-off "battles" between some of the best local talent in the region, guaranteeing to bring you an exhilarating night of various talents and multiple styles. Tommy explains: "This is the return of Battle Night, which was also featured in the movie RIZE...There will be excitement, energy, crowd ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - According to new research conducted at Oregon Health & Science University, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is more than one disorder. It's an entire family of disorders, much like the multiple subtypes of cancer. The research, which highlights various versions of the disease, each with differing impacts, demonstrates that there is likely not going to be a "one-size-fits-all" approach to treating patients. It also suggests new methods for characterizing any given individual are going to be required for improved diagnosis, prognosis and ...

An early Positron Emission Tomography (PET) response after the initial cycle of neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be used to predict increased survival in patients with soft tissue sarcomas, according to a study by researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prior studies by this multidisciplinary team of physician scientists at the Jonsson Cancer Center had shown that use of FDG PET/computed tomography (CT) could determine pathologic response after the first dose of chemotherapy drugs. The researchers then wondered if the patients showing a significant ...

TrainingFolks, a global provider of custom learning solutions, consulting, and contingent workforce services, announces that HRO Today Magazine has selected TrainingFolks for its 2012 Baker's Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings - Learning. The Baker's Dozen is an annual list which ranks and recognizes the top service providers within the training and development industry. "We are excited and proud to be named a top provider of learning services", said Matthew Davis CEO and Co-Founder of TrainingFolks. "Our focus on exceeding customers' expectations while ...

JUPITER, FL, April 2, 2012 – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that the loss of memory that comes with aging is not necessarily a permanent thing. In a new study published this week in an advance, online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ron Davis, chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Scripps Florida, and Ayako Tonoki-Yamaguchi, a research associate in Davis's lab, took a close look at memory and memory traces in the brains of both young and old fruit flies. What ...

Only a few iPad Apps can open Microsoft Word -documents, and most of them just display the content without giving the possibility to edit it. Additionally, most Apps on the iOS-platform omit contents when they display DOCX- or DOC-files. With Word-2-Text, the content of a Word-document can be extracted as plain text and transferred to any iPad App. This way users can import DOCX- and DOC-files to all common text editors, notebooks and other Apps and have them on hand for full-text-search and editing. Mail, Safari , Dropbox, Evernote and all other WebKit-based Apps ...

New Rochelle, NY, April 2, 2012—When a mother undergoes genetic testing to determine whether she carries a gene for hereditary breast cancer, the parents must then decide whether and how to share this risk information with their children. Conventional genetic counseling does not help parents with these difficult decisions, according to an article in Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.(http://www.liebertpub.com) The article is available free on the Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers website (http://www.liebertpub.com/gtmb). ...

Pastor Pierre Bennett, founder of God's Luv International Ministries Church, has long believed in the power of faith. While serving as assistant pastor of Upper Room International Church, Pastor Pierre Bennett was struck with a vision of a worldwide ministry of care. In 2008, he took major steps toward making that vision a reality by founding God's Luv International Ministries Church. Faith healing is a concept that dates all the way to early Biblical times, with healing regularly mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Pastor Pierre Bennett has seen the power ...

A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the plains and woodlands of what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia some 3.4 million years ago. Researchers openly have questioned whether Au. afarensis, the species to which the famous fossil "Lucy" belongs, was the only living hominin during the late Pliocene of Africa. Lucy's bones provided evidence that she and perhaps other early hominins may have walked upright, but whether or not ...

Caliber Point Business Solutions Limited., a leading BPO service provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexaware Technologies Limited, today announced that they are one of the joint winners of the 'Best IT Enablement in BPO' Award at the BPO Excellence Awards 2011 - 12. The BPO Excellence Awards are aimed at identifying and rewarding professionals and organizations for their superlative achievements in the field of Business Process Outsourcing. Judged by an independent jury that consists of leaders and experts from the industry, the BPO Excellence Awards are true ...

Vistra, a leading global provider of corporate, trust and fund administration services, announced today that it has opened a new office in Mauritius to target the growing opportunities in the region and in particular in the African and Indian markets. Vistra (Mauritius) Limited has opened on 02 April, following the granting of a licence to operate as a Mauritius management company by the local regulatory authority. Vistra believes Mauritius offers an excellent gateway for clients seeking investment structuring solutions for African markets, given the continent's vast ...

There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this "dark matter" really is. Many scientists think it's likely that the mystery will be solved with the discovery of new kinds of subatomic particles, types necessarily different from those composing atoms of the ordinary matter all around us. The search to detect and ...

2X Software, a global leader in Cloud Computing and a Tech Data StreamOne Vendor, is pleased to partner with Microsoft to exhibit at Tech Data Channel Link 2012. Over 500 resellers will be attending the event from the 10-12 April 2012 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Channel Link 2012 will cover a range of technologies including Cloud and Mobility solutions where 2X are ideally placed to offer insights to the channel. 2X ApplicationServer XG http://www.2x.com/applicationserver/, transforms the foundation of Microsoft Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Services to combine ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The combination of the novel drug TH-302 with the standard drug gemcitabine has shown early signs of delaying the worsening of cancer in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, a Mayo Clinic-led study has found. This was evaluated using a measure termed progression-free survival (PFS). According to the results of a multi-center Phase II clinical trial, patients receiving the combination of gemcitabine and TH-302 demonstrated a progression-free survival of 5.6 months compared to 3.6 months in those patients who received gemcitabine alone. The two-month ...