Yolanda Amphy, Georgia resident and Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant, maintains a blog dedicated to empowering and inspiring women locally and all over the world. Recently she has taken it upon herself to educate about the ways in which the Mary Kay Foundation gives back to society by helping those in need. In 2010, the Mary Kay Foundation granted 150 domestic violence shelters $20,000 each for a total of $3 million. It also awarded 13 respected donors and medical scientists $100,000 each in cancer research grants �EUR" a total of $1.3 million. The Foundation ...

Margaritas Mexican Restaurant has reinvented their popular menu with the addition of several mouth-watering dishes and a new appearance. The 23-unit restaurant chain, known for its commitment to authentic flavors and rich Mexican style decor, debuted the new menu this month. Every year, Margaritas Executive Chef Martha Leahy takes trips to various regions throughout Mexico to hone in on traditional flavors of the country and get inspiration from local dishes to share in the New England restaurants. "We're committed to using authentic Mexican flavors in a new ...

Matrox Graphics is proud to announce that it will be collaborating with Mitsubishi Electric at Integrate Expo 2011, where Matrox multi-display graphics solutions will drive Mitsubishi high-performance LCD flat panels, display wall cubes, and multimedia projectors arranged in a variety of pro-AV configurations. Dual-pivoted HD monitors powered by Matrox M-Series graphics cards will complement the booth's centerpiece, a 150" Mitsubishi OLED display. Using the Matrox PowerDesk Edge Overlap feature, Matrox M-Series cards will enable three Mitsubishi XD8100U/LU projectors ...

eRepair recently released a brand new innovative tool that helps users recover damaged data from PDF files. Recovery Toolbox for PDF uses a highly efficient proprietary engine which allows the end user to restore most or all of the data from damaged PDF files which otherwise might be irrecoverable using other methods. Recovery Toolbox for PDF is designed for users of different experience levels from the novice user to intermediate and advanced level users. The software has a user friendly interface that automates the processes for recovering damaged data in PDF files. ...

The back to school craziness has started, and while children may be excited about all the cool new supplies, fear and nervousness about what school is going to bring this year may be eating away at your child, and could have deep consequences if not addressed early. Children, especially those that have been uprooted and have to start in a new school might not show immediately they are fearful of their new situation. That's where the role of the parent needs to be supportive and communicative. Beate Epp, a Saskatchewan author of the best selling children's book The ...

Event Marketing Solutions (EMS) is going for double after being shortlisted for another prestigious business award in the region. The company, which specialises in promotional marketing using exhibition trailers, is in line to win Most Entrepreneurial Company at the 2011 North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, run by Excel Publishing & Events in conjunction with EN Magazine. The announcement comes just a week after EMS was shortlisted for Medium Business of the Year in the Trinity Mirror Cheshire Business Awards. The EN Awards, now in their tenth year, ...

Melissa Essary, dean of the Campbell University Norman A. Wiggins School of Law (http://law.campbell.edu), has announced that Professor Jon Powell has been appointed to the juvenile planning committee of the Governor's crime commission. As a committee member, Powell will be responsible for advising Gov. Bev Perdue on all issues of juvenile crime across the state as well as determining where federal dollars should go to sponsor programs to address these issues. Powell was recommended to the governor for the committee by Linda Hayes, secretary of the N.C. Department of Juvenile ...

Today, Methods Machine Tools, Inc., a leading supplier of innovative precision machine tools, has introduced the Nakamura-Tome WT-150 II 8-Axis, Multitasking Turning Center. The WT-150 II, which features numerous upgrades from the base WT-150 design, has opposed twin-spindle, 2-turret construction, offering high-speed and high rigidity in a compact machine. http://www.methodsmachine.com/machines/region/21/products/5/19 The new WT-150 II will make its U.S. debut at imX in Las Vegas, September 12-14, 2011. http://www.methodsmachine.com/imx/ "With the introduction ...

Current estimates of the impact of chemotherapy on women's reproductive health are too low, according to a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study. The researchers say their analysis of the age-specific, long-term effects of chemotherapy provides new insights that will help patients and clinicians make more informed decisions about future reproductive options, such as egg harvesting. Previous studies largely have focused on amenorrhea, or the lack of menstruation shortly after treatment, as the primary reproductive side effect of chemotherapy. In this analysis, ...

Fort Myers Daycare, Child Care of Southwest Florida, announces its support of the recently released icon by the U.S. Department of Agriculture called "MyPlate". This icon is a new visual which represents the agreed upon standard of a healthy diet. "MyPlate" will replace the previously used "food pyramid", which has served as the icon to represent a healthy diet for nearly the past 20 years. First lady Michelle Obama, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack unveiled the new icon this past June. It's called ...

Janice Cutler, president and owner of North Raleigh Florist (http://www.northraleighfloristinc.com), has announced that Brandi R. Dennison, a North Carolina Certified Professional Florist and Wake County Designer of the Year 2009, has joined the staff as a lead designer and a weddings and events consultant. In her new position, Dennison will apply her decade of experience in the floral industry to serve the North Raleigh Florist client base with design recommendations, as well as expert wedding consultation and event advice. Her passion for creating floral arrangements ...

A new study demonstrates how text mining of electronic health records can be used to create medical term profiles of patients, which can be used both to identify co-occurrence of diseases and to cluster patients into groups with highly similar clinical features. The study, carried out in Denmark by a multi-disciplinary group of bioinformaticians, systems biologists and clinicians, will be published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on 25th August 2011. Health records contain detailed phenotypic information on the clinical profile of each individual ...

Owing back taxes is a stressful event. It takes a toll on health, bank accounts and marriages. Luckily Randy and Ethel Fay Thieme of Titusville, Pennsylvania, sought help dealing with their back tax debt. The Thiemes' tax problems started with not having enough taxes withheld from their business income. Not filing their federal tax returns on time contributed to the problem. They were uncertain of how to fix their tax problem when they turned to JK Harris & Company, the nation's largest tax representation firm. According to the IRS, the Thiemes owed approximately ...

NEW YORK – A new study involving nearly 2,500 high school students demonstrates the value of routine mental health screening in school to identify adolescents at-risk for mental illness, and to connect those adolescents with recommended follow-up care. The largest school-based study conducted to-date by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University, findings are published in the Sept. 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Conducted between 2005 and 2009 at six public high schools in suburban ...

Los Angeles, CA (AUGUST 25, 2011) Suicide, child abuse, playground fights, gang violence, sexual assault, and domestic violence are just a few examples of violence that touch people in all walks of life and communities everywhere. Homicide and suicide remain in the top ten leading causes of death for people from birth to age 64. How do you combat an issue that takes so many forms and has so many causes? The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (published ...

Patty Briguglio, president of MMI Public Relations (http://www.mmipublicrelations.com), a Raleigh-based full-service public relations firm, has announced that the firm has received a 2011 Videographer Award for "Four Guiding Principles," a video produced for Wake School Choice. Wake School Choice was created by The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Wake Education Partnership in response to a request for input on growing student enrollment by the Wake County Board of Education. The initiative was designed by these organizations to address the tremendous ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Why do some folks who take every precaution still get the flu, while others never even get the sniffles? It comes down to a person's immune system response to the flu virus, says Alfred Hero, professor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. In one of the first known studies of its kind, Hero and colleagues from Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, used genomics to begin to unravel what in our complex genomic data accounts for why some get sick while others don't. The study findings will appear ...

Uterine leiomyomas, also called fibroids, cause a very significant burden to women's health. They are benign tumors that occur in 60% of women by the age of 45 years and cause symptoms such as abdominal pain and discomfort, and abnormal bleeding, in about half of the cases. Fibroids are also an important cause of infertility. These tumors are the most common medical reason for hysterectomy. Considering the clinical importance of fibroids, relatively little has been known about the mechanisms of tumorigenesis involved. A research team at the University of Helsinki, ...

Personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP is pleased to announce that SJ Magazine has named personal injury lawyer John M. Dodig to its 2011 Top Attorneys list for the second consecutive year. SJ Magazine's list of Southern New Jersey's best lawyers is the result of comprehensive polling of members of the Southern New Jersey legal community. With a readership of approximately 180,000, SJ Magazine is widely read by residents and business professionals throughout New Jersey's Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties. SJ ...

A new, comprehensive study by an international team of scientists, including scientists at Boston University in the US and the Universities of Viçosa and Campinas in Brazil, has been published in the current issue of Science (August 26, 2011) refuting earlier alarmist claims that drought has induced a decline in global plant productivity during the past decade and posed a threat to global food security. Those earlier findings published by Zhao and Running in the August 2010 issue of Science (Vol. 329, p. 940) also warned of potentially serious consequences for biofuel ...

Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust particles, detailed in a special issue of the journal Science this week, confirms a long-standing suspicion: that the most common meteorites found here on Earth, known as ordinary chondrites, are born from these stony, or S-type, asteroids. And since chondrites are among the most primitive objects in the solar system, the discovery also means that these asteroids have been recording ...

Bright Bay Mazda is excited to announce that Mazda has developed an industry-first recycling technology that takes old bumpers from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and recycles them into raw materials for new car bumpers. The innovative technology by Mazda is a major step in reducing waste and building greener vehicles. Mazda's new recycling process is known as thermal recycling. Mazda breaks down the old bumpers into a residue which then gets thrown into an incinerator to recollect the heat energy. The recycled plastic is projected to be 10% of the new bumper. Mazda's ...

Flexiant, a UK-based cloud infrastructure software and services provider - and Europe's original public cloud provider - and Standing Cloud, Inc. a leader in the emerging platform as a service (PaaS) marketplace, have gone live with their "Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant" integration, bringing a vastly simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to European cloud users. "Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant" marries an application layer from Standing Cloud with Flexiant's Extility cloud product. Extility customers will be ...

Scientists at Yale University have developed the first practical method to create a compound called huperzine A in the lab. The compound, which occurs naturally in a species of moss found in China, is an enzyme inhibitor that has been used to treat Alzheimer's disease in China since the late 1990s and is sold in the U.S. as a dietary supplement to help maintain memory. Scientists believe it could also potentially combat the effects of chemical warfare agents. Until now, researchers have only been able to derive small amounts of the compound directly from the Huperzia ...

Unmarried Fathers Have the Same Rights as Mothers Unwed fathers have the same constitutional rights as unwed mothers to establish a relationship with his child. However, in order to receive the same rights, the unwed father must first show the state he is the biological father. While state laws vary, generally a man is only presumed to be the father at birth under the following circumstances: -The child is born during marriage to the child's mother -He is required to support the child by law -He has signed a declaration of paternity Additionally, the father's ...