Discover the latest colors, designs and decor at the Hoffman Design Group's spectacular Horticultural Design Center and Holiday Showroom. Located at Folcroft, PA, just 8 miles from the center of Philadelphia, the center is bigger, and more inspirational, than ever. Showcasing innovative and eye-catching designs and products, the Center is a one-stop shop for the latest in plant design, colors and trends, and features our 6' x 6' greenwall. Our new Holiday display area boasts 14 holiday trees (6 more than 2010), and a 'sweets' theme with cookies and candy galore. Come ...

The plastic surgeons at Advanced Aesthetic Associates (www.aaaplasticsurgery.com) is excited to announce the expansion of liposuction procedures offered for Phoenix plastic surgery patients. With technological advancements in procedures, plastic surgeons are able to effectively remove excess fat deposits from areas of the body. Liposuction helps people create a more proportional body shape, improving areas such as the abdomen, thighs, arms, and legs. "Phoenix liposuction patients can contour the shape of their bodies and reach their cosmetic goals with the expansion ...

Today's moms want it all: A great family as well as the body they had before their pregnancies. At Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery located on the world famous avenue in Beverly Hills, plastic surgeon Dr. Lloyd Krieger provides specialized services for people below the age of 50. Of course, this includes people who want to have their pre-baby bodies. "Many women want to have the bodies that they used to have, before pregnancy made changes to their tummies and breasts" notes Dr. Krieger. Dr. Krieger, who has been featured in Fortune, The New York Times, Wall Street ...

CoolSculpting by ZELTIQ is the newest non-invasive treatment to be added to the medical spa service menu at The Hughes Center (www.drnewyou.com). Dr. Susan M. Hughes, who performs several facial cosmetic services including facelift surgery near Philadelphia, has added the treatment to join the other non-surgical body contouring procedures she offers her patients. Along with Thermage and SkinTyte, women and men can notice slimmer and tighter body contours with CoolSculpting. Dr. Hughes states, "I often perform facial cosmetic surgery and non-surgical treatments to ...

Precision Microdrives has recently included a 6mm through-hole PCB mounted vibration motor with multi-mounting points for extra secure mounting, within it's Pico Haptic range of miniature vibration motors. This motor offers traditional through-hole mounting method of integration with a small amount of board real-estate. The vibration motor can be soldered by hand or with wave soldering techniques. This vibration motor also has a very low start voltage which makes it suitable for producing a wide range of vibration intensities and vibration intensity modulation. Lots ...

For the real estate agency LAS ANCLAS IBIZA, 2010 was the most successful business year in its 11 years of operation. While others faced a real estate downturn, Ibiza, Spain, experienced a boon. There was an especially high demand for countryside villas, designer villas and properties in exclusive areas, representing a solid investment combined with a holiday factor. Last year may have been a slow one for real estate firms throughout the world, but that wasn't the case in Ibiza, Spain, where sales flourished. In fact, the real estate experts at LAS ANCLAS are reporting ...

This year's summer enrollment has far surpassed the number of students from its 2010 record high. Parents are enrolling children who have learning problems and are hindered by ADD, ADHD, dyslexia and autism spectrum disorders in hopes of making the upcoming grade level easier. Children with these brain related disorders are headed to Brain Potential Institute in mass hoping to avoid having to retake a grade. Others are trying to avoid going through another semester of tutoring that hasn't helped. On another note, enrollment in Brain Potential Institute's brain training ...

Inmod, a leading online retailer of modern furniture, lighting, and decor, is excited to present an augmented collection of modern outdoor furniture. In recent months, Inmod has formed strategic partnerships with yet even more of the industry's most sought-after designers in order to increase their existing outdoor furniture collection. From modern outdoor sofas and lounge chairs to outdoor patio dining sets, Inmod has all of the outdoor furniture necessary to accommodate a vast range of budgets, lifestyles and design preferences. Inmod's hand-picked collection of outdoor ...

iPads and other tablet computers are very versatile devices. They are used for reading books in their digitised form, surfing the Internet, watching movies, listening to music, playing games, as photo organisers and displayers and so much more. There are several uses you can put your iPad to, but one thing is very important here - it is crucial that your iPad continues giving you immaculate picture quality. That's the whole point actually! How could you effectively read the virtual form of Lord of the Rings on your iPad if it has smudged fingerprints all over its screen? ...

Facebook application maker Whowish has officially launched its newest social media application, Squeks. Whowish began beta testing the "Love it or Hate it" application in March and has added and updated several features prior to this week's launch. "Squeks is more than just an app that lets you vote on the people, places, and things that you love or hate," says Sam Kittayapong, CEO of Whowish. "It also creates a fun forum where fans can gather and share thoughts about a particular celebrity and where you can make new friends who share similar interests." One ...

The Coral will bring their unique brand of psychedelic indie rock to the south coast next month. Bournemouth's Old Fire Station is set to welcome the band on Wednesday June 22nd, when they are likely to play songs from last year's fifth studio album Butterfly House and older material. The gig will be one of two warm-up shows for the Wirral-based band before their performance at Glastonbury this summer. With hits such as Dreaming of You, Pass It On and In the Morning to their name, The Coral have managed to combine critical acclaim with a degree of mainstream chart ...

Fans of Bob Marley may be attracted to the Norwich Arts Centre for a special performance this summer. On Wednesday June 15th, the Norfolk venue is due to stage Me Marley and I by Yaw Asiyama. Set to the backdrop of live reggae music, this one-man play tells a story of love and friendship amid the chaos and brutality of a military revolution in Africa. It is an autobiographical production written by and starring Asiyama, a poet and storyteller who used his real-life experiences to create the drama. As the young Yaw attempts to make sense of the world, he is comforted ...

The MAXXI gallery in Rome is showcasing the work of several artists as part of its cross-media Expanded Video project. Running until June 5th 2011, the initiative aims to blur the line between listening and seeing, turning them into "analogous and equivalent episodes". Masbedo, Jacob TV, Martha Colburn and People Like Us are the artists taking part in the event. Among the pieces due to be shown are a study of relationships between men and women, a stop-motion piece about killing dictators from history and a series of familiar scenes from movies that have ...

Tutoring Match has invited parents to participate in its 2nd essay contest "Why is education life's most valuable investment?" First Prize is an Amazon Kindle or Barnes and Noble Nook plus 3 hours of free tutoring for any family member. Second Prize is three hours of free tutoring in any subject for any family member. Third Prize is one hour of free tutoring for any family member. Each essay must be 250-500 words and include the following: - A clear thesis statement that answers why education is life's most valuable investment. - At least 3 compelling ...

From the time ASG Bowl arrived in the market place, their bowling insurance program has taken significant steps in becoming an agency to be reckoned with. After being named as The Official Insurance Partner of Strike Ten Entertainment, ASG Bowl quickly became a national name in the bowling community at large. While impeccable service, tailored solutions and competitive rates are what set ASG Bowl apart - they have now taken their agency to another level in developing an exclusive bowling insurance program with HCC Specialty (Wakefield, MA). HCC is a "leading international ...

Breathing heavily at the edge of an ice hole, an Antarctic emperor penguin prepares to dive. Taking a last gulp of air, the bird descends and may not emerge again for another 20 minutes. The penguin initially carries sufficient oxygen in three stores – the blood, lungs and myoglobin in muscle – to sustain aerobic metabolism. However, around 5.6 minutes after leaving the surface, lactate begins appearing in the penguin's blood and the bird crosses the so-called 'aerobic dive limit', switching to anaerobic metabolism in some tissues. So what triggers this transition? Cassondra ...

Hunting in the North Sea, harbour seals often encounter murky water that impedes their vision; but it doesn't affect their ability to chase prey. Extending their vibration-sensitive whiskers, the mammals are almost as efficient at pursuing their quarry as they would be if guided by sight. Wolf Hanke and his colleagues from the University of Rostock, Germany, are fascinated by how harbour seals perceive the world through their flow-sensitive vibrissae. Having already found that seals can pick up and follow fish wakes up to 35 seconds after the prey has passed and knowing ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a steroid hormone that inhibits inflammation in the brain. The findings, to be published in the May 13 issue of the journal Cell, have implications for understanding the exaggerated inflammatory responses that are characteristic features of numerous neurodegenerative diseases. The discovery that the steroid hormone ADIOL, (5-androsten-3Β-17Β-diol), a precursor of androgens and estrogens, modulates inflammation induced by microglia cells could eventually lead to new treatments ...

New York, Nairobi – By 2050, humanity could consume an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is "decoupled" from the rate of natural resource consumption, warns a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme. Citizens of developed countries consume an average of 16 tons (ranging up to 40 or more tons) of those four key resources per capita. By comparison, the average person in India today consumes four tons per year. With the growth of both population ...

"I have a slide that has a photo of a cornfield and a big photovoltaic array," says Robert Blankenship, a scientist who studies photosynthesis at Washington University in St. Louis. "When I give talks I often ask the audience which one is more efficient. Invariably the audience votes overwhelmingly in favor of photosynthesis. " They are wrong. This question and its surprising answer (below) is the point of departure for a provocative article published in the May 13 issue of Science. The article is the outgrowth of a Department of Energy workshop comparing the efficiency ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Depression and anxiety may result from short-term digestive irritation early in life, according to a study of laboratory rats by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings suggest that some human psychological conditions may be the result, rather than the cause, of gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome. "A lot of research has focused on understanding how the mind can influence the body," said Pankaj Pasricha, MD, professor and chief of gastroenterology and hepatology. "But this study suggests that it ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have untangled two distinct ways in which a common, naturally occurring "tumor-suppressor" protein works. The separation of these two functions — which can have quite different consequences — could enhance efforts to develop treatment approaches that mitigate the sometimes-devastating side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The protein, p53, is mutated or missing in more than half of all human cancers, and most cancers involve at least some compromise in its function. Cancer is caused ...

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected role for estrogen receptors in the brain in keeping inflammation under control. The findings reported in the May 13 issue of the Cell Press journal Cell may have important implications for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and many other neurodegenerative diseases. They might also help to explain why women are three times more susceptible to developing MS than men are, researchers say. "We've really discovered an alternative pathway for estrogen receptors in the brain," said Christopher Glass of the University of California, ...

WASHINGTON—A bill in Oregon that would provide incentives to deliver fresh local food to schools would improve the health of the state's residents and, at the same time, create hundreds of new farm-industry jobs over a five- to 10-year period, according to a study released by Upstream Public Health in Portland. The researchers received a grant from the Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, to conduct a health impact assessment (HIA) on the Farm to School and School Garden legislation, HB 2800. An ...

LA JOLLA, CA- By virtue of having survived, all animals-from flies to man-share a common expertise. All can distinguish times of plenty from famine and adjust their metabolism or behavior accordingly. Failure to do so signals either extinction or disease. A collaborative effort by investigators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies recently revealed just how similarly mammals and insects make critical metabolic adjustments when food availability changes, either due to environmental catastrophe or everyday changes in sleep/wake cycles. Those findings may suggest ...