Premier podiatrist in Houston, Dr. Gabriel Maislos, is honored to have been voted as one of the Top Doctors of 2010 in Houston from H Texas Magazine by his peers. This is a great recognition and award to receive, showing Dr. Maislos' continuous commitment to providing the best in quality podiatric care for his patients. In addition, Dr. Maislos was also voted as America's Top Podiatrist in 2010. "I am honored to have been selected by my peers as a Top Doctor of 2010 in Texas. There is nothing more honorable than to be recognized by my fellow colleagues for the quality ...

At the end of this week, every car insurance policyholder in Texas who has the minimum limits will be required to raise the limits for liability protection in order to be in accordance with state law. And, unfortunately for those who are already struggling to scrape together the money for their 6- or 12-month premium payments, the change may bring with it a slight increase in premiums. As of Jan.1, 2011, policies with just the minimum levels of bodily injury liability coverage will need to increase their amount of coverage by 20 percent. Although premiums may rise as ...

Print It Fast Online has recently teamed up with the Autism Society of Kentuckiana to help them in their efforts to promote Autism Awareness. The Autism Society of Kentuckiana (ASK) is offering Autism Awareness tote bags to help fund ASK educational, outreach, support and awareness programs. Print It Fast Online is selling these totes for ASK exclusively at their online printing store- http://printitfastonline.com. 100% of the proceeds are donated directly to ASK. ASK President, Melanie Hasenstab said, "We are so thrilled that Print It Fast Online is helping us with ...

Red Bus Bingo has a number of fantastic bingo promotions happening this December They give you the opportunity to have some fun and win some good money. For instance there is the chance to win GBP1000 every day at Red Bus bingo. It takes place at 9.15pm which means win it and you are in for one hell of a night! You can follow this with taking a free ride. This happens between 8am and 1am every day. Players can have between one and six tickets and this competition is very popular among Red Bus players. As is Big Ben Bonanza. This is an icon of London and it is also an ...

There is no better way to end off the week and start the weekend than the Friday Feast. This bingo promotion is one of the regular ones that take place at Tasty Bingo. The online bingo site has a large number of various promotions that are taking place which you will find to be simply delicious. Such as the Friday Feast which happens every Friday evening at 8.30pm. If you walk away with GBP200 then you have well and truly gotten the weekend off to a great start. The prizes for 1 line, 2 lines and a full house add up to the GBP200. Cards for this game cost just GBP1 ...

There is no better time of the year than Christmas and there is no better place to be during Christmas then Wink Bingo. Wink has a number of great promotions and competitions running. Win one of these and suddenly the Christmas shopping won't seem so bad! The first is Santa's Sack of Cash. This is the latest Come Spin with Me tournament and is offering you to chance to win a share of GBP500, the first place of which is GBP200. All you need to do to grab a piece of this is to play bingo or wager on any of Wink Bingo's instant games between the 3rd and 12th of December! ...

Christmas is a wonderful time of year and thanks to Posh Bingo it can be even more special. The online bingo site is having some Christmas related competitions. Win those and your Christmas promises to be exceptional. The first competition is Santa's GBP6k Helper. Players have the chance to win a slice of GBP6,000. This is happening on Christmas Night at 9:45pm. What a great way to finish up Christmas? It will give you the chance to pay off your mortgage, household bills or credit card after buying all of those presents. A full house wins GBP3,000, two lines will see ...

Wisconsin Engineer's Text-Blocking Device Aims to Reduce Distracted Driving Accidents Distracted driving is a daily menace in America. Last year alone, the carnage included 5,474 deaths and 450,000 injuries in motor vehicle accidents linked to driver distractions. To be sure, cell phone conversations and text-messaging are not the only forms of distraction. Personal grooming, eating and CD-changing are among the others. But texting while driving can be particularly distracting. Indeed, there is research indicating that it may be even more dangerous than drunk driving. ...

Pennsylvania Pedestrian Injuries Recently, a man walking on I-80 in Stroud, Pennsylvania was hit by a motor vehicle. He was flown to the hospital in critical condition. Another pedestrian accident occurred in Brookline, Pennsylvania when a pedestrian was fatally struck by a van. These two incidents highlight the issue of pedestrian safety in Pennsylvania. In 2008, there were 137 pedestrian fatalities in Pennsylvania and 4,378 nationwide, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Although nationally this represents a 16 percent decrease ...

Understanding the New Export Control Attestation Requirement Help for U.S. Employers of Foreign Nationals Effective December 23, 2010, the new Form I-129 (Petition for Non-Immigrant Worker) requires employers bringing foreign national workers into the country to take an extra step. The new export control attestation applies to the employers using H-1B, H1-B1, L-1, and O-1A non-immigrant visas for foreign employees. In part six of the new form, employers must review the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ...

The Effects of Marijuana on Driving Abilities Does driving while under the influence of marijuana make the roads more dangerous? According to researchers at Yale University, the answer to that question is a bit more complex than you might expect. Certainly, marijuana affects an individual's responses and technical skills as a driver. When under the influence of pot, an individual's perception of time and speed are altered, attentiveness is reduced and motor coordination is affected. The New York Times notes that researchers G. Berghaus and B. Guo concluded that pot ...

Carbon Monoxide: the Odorless Killer With winter's chill in the air, it's easy to take shortcuts with safety to stay warm. By doing everything from letting the car warm up in the garage to moving the grill too close to the house, we sometimes put our own and our family's safety at risk. Carbon monoxide (CO) exposure affects the health and safety of many every year, especially in the winter months. CO is an odorless gas that is contained within combustion fumes. CO is a danger to humans because it bonds to blood cells quicker than oxygen, and in doing so, puts our ...

Hampton Inn Spartanburg - North I-85, a premier Spartanburg hotel, offers nearby accommodations to Wofford College Men's Basketball games this season. Basketball games are played on campus at Benjamin Johnson Arena. Upcoming Wofford Terrier's January, 2011 home games are: - Thursday, January 6 verse The Citadel at 7:00pm - Saturday, January 8 verse College of Charleston at 6:00pm - Thursday, January 20 verse Chattanooga at 7:00pm - Saturday, January 22 verse Samford at 2:00pm - Monday, January 24 verse Furman at 7:00pm - Saturday, January 29 verse Western Carolina ...

The Majestic Photobooth Company, a photo booth rental company, has expanded its service area with a new office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The new Philadelphia photo booth warehouse, located close to downtown, joins The Majestic Photobooth Company's Atlanta photo booth rental headquarters, New York photo booth showroom, and other locations across the country. "Philadelphia is great city, and we're very excited to have a presence up there now," remarks Zach Brown, owner of The Majestic Photobooth Company. "We know that the fun loving people of Philadelphia will love ...

The Secret Society of Happy People announces its 13th annual Happiest Events and Moments of the year: 5. The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear lead by Jon Stewart and in-character Stephen Colbert served as a much-needed reminder that most Americans are still moderates. 4. President Obama signed into law the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell allowing all military personnel to serve with integrity. 3. Social media shows its influence as Facebook fans revive Betty White's career by petitioning for her to host Saturday Night Live ... and Mark Zuckerman graces the ...

Uniquegiftsanddecor.com announced that its first holiday selling season was very successful and increased its online presence as a destination site for truly unusual and special gifts and home decor products. Don Oppenheim, vice president stated: "For a site that just went live in mid October of 2010, we did extremely well. Above all we met our goal of excelling at customer service." Unique Gifts and Decor was established to provide consumers with a one-stop place for finding gifts and home decor items that are not easily found. "My son and I both like things that ...

Measurement Systems International (MSI) announces a new generation "MSI-3460 Challenger 3" Digital Crane Scale with an enhanced electronics package and larger display readout, complimenting their full line of crane scales and other weighing products. "The MSI Challenger series was first introduced to the industrial marketplace in 1985 and has since become a world-renown standard for digital crane scales," according to MSI National Sales Manager, Tim Carroll. Now in its third generation, the Challenger 3 crane scale incorporates a newly developed and highly integrated ...

USSelfStorageLocator.com today launched a state-of-the-art search engine-rental website which allows consumers the ability to easily find the best storage facility nationwide that fits their needs. Equipped with the newest web technology available in the industry, USSelfStorageLocator.com's marketing presence will predictably benefit owner/operators immensely. Finding self-storage and comparing facilities with ease is now available thanks to USSelfStorageLocator.com (http://www.USSelfStorageLocator.com). As the website name indicates, this visually attractive and ultra ...

The Central Ohio Home & Garden Show announced today that it will again hold its Amateur Cake Decorating Competition. This year's competition will take place on Sunday, March 6, 2011, when five of the region's most talented amateur cake decorators will have the chance to compete for cash prizes before a live audience. The 2011 Central Ohio Home & Garden Show is slated for February 26 - March 6 at the Ohio Expo Center. Show guests can watch the Amateur Cake Decorating Competition from 2:00-3:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, with setup taking place from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Judging ...

The spirit of Christmas was never felt more for 50 struggling Southeast Los Angeles families than when La Bella joined with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) and Univision Radio to host a Posada Navidena event full of joy and hope for the neediest. Eager children frolicked around a jolly red-suited Santa Claus whose day job finds him as LAPD Southeast Los Angeles Captain Phillip Tingirides. Every child received toys, and all enjoyed the presence of Latin pop artist Luz Rios, along with a festive hot dinner followed by a ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 23, 2010—Studying how bacteria incorporate foreign DNA from invading viruses into their own regulatory processes, Thomas Wood, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is uncovering the secrets of one of nature's most primitive immune systems. His findings, which appear in "Nature Communications," a multidisciplinary publication dedicated to research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences, shed light on how bacteria have throughout the course of millions of years developed ...

DALLAS – Dec. 26, 2010 – New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers may solve a 17-year-old mystery about how the so-called "starvation hormone" affects multiple biological systems, including preventing insulin sensitivity and promoting cell survival. The results connect multiple observations about how the hormone adiponectin functions and eventually could lead to new treatments for conditions ranging from diabetes and weight loss to heart disease and cancer. "Until now, there wasn't really an obvious connection between all these different phenomena," ...

Las Vegas, NV (Dec. 24, 2010) - Three weeks of oral resveratrol or Longevinex® ingestion prior to an induced heart attack returned microRNA activity close to their pre-event levels in excised animal hearts. Among thousands of microRNA's studied, just six were attributed to exerting the majority of the gene-switching effects measured in the animal heart study — four microRNA optimally regulated by Longevinex® and two optimally by plain resveratrol. A pre-conditioning effect with resveratrol and Longevinex® had already been demonstrated in prior studies where these small ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. –Epilepsy, a common and serious neurologic disorder that affects millions of people, is not getting the public attention and funding for research it deserves, according to an editorial on a study published in the January 4, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "We have almost nonexistent epilepsy surveillance, or ongoing collection of data on newly diagnosed epilepsy, in the United States," said Edwin Trevathan, MD, MPH, Dean of the St. Louis University School of Public Health in St. Louis and a member ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A novel potential therapy based on a natural human protein significantly slows muscle damage and improves function in mice who have the same genetic mutation as boys with the most common form of muscular dystrophy, according to a paper published online Dec. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a fatal genetic mutation in about one of every 3,500 boys. They are unable to produce a protein called dystrophin that keeps muscles strong. By eight years of age, the boys begin to have trouble ...