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Hookah Pipes No Safer Than Cigarettes
2013-04-19 05:37:18

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While the belief that smoking tobacco through a hookah is safer than smoking cigarettes has led the practice to gain popularity on college campuses throughout the US, new research demonstrates that smoke produced by the fragrant water pipe contains a different but no less harmful mixture of toxins. Writing in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) research...

Chewing Gum Can Help You Focus
2013-04-02 10:25:44

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online There’s a lot about chewing gum and the act of chewing gum to wonder about. Chew as we might, we never break it down, never digest it, and never receive any nutritional value from it. In many ways, it can be seen as an exercise in futility or a transformation from human to bovine. A recent study published in the British Journal of Psychology has found some good could come from chewing gum. According to these researchers,...

2013-02-21 08:40:40

BOARDMAN, Ohio, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Burke Decor is now carrying an extensive collection of area rugs from many different brands and designers. Burke Decor carries a complete range of area rug styles, including over 600 rugs in contemporary, transitional and traditional categories. Burke Decor carries a variety of rug constructions from designers such as Bob Mackie, Candice Olson, Walt Disney, Martha Stewart, Amy Butler, Designer's Guild and more. From February 20th until...

2012-09-03 02:21:49

BIRMINGHAM, England, September 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This Sunday, sk:n, the UK's number one skin care clinic, will be appearing at Birmingham's Eid Mela celebration to help raise awareness of skin care to everyone attending. Over the course of the year, sk:n has attended a variety of different events across the country to let everyone know that they don't have to suffer in silence if they have a skin condition. Most people think that they have to 'put up with'...

2012-07-31 06:21:37

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global South Asian film & television service Mela continues to grow, today launching select free-to-view movies on PC and Mac computers and the already-existing Mela TV Apps on the iPad (outside India), Roku (outside India and US), Android, Kindle, Samsung TV and DVD (in Beta). Beginning with 8 Hindi movies today, new titles will be added for viewing each week, including films from each of the other 8 language categories....

2012-07-16 23:02:04

Orange County video production company releases Indian wedding sample films to public Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) July 16, 2012 Pixel FIlm Studios released an Orange County Indian wedding sample film to the public yesterday. California state has the largest Indian population in the country, yet planning a traditional Indian wedding is still very laborious when many wedding coordinators are more accustomed to white dresses and towering cakes. Configuring days of celebrations with detailed...

2012-05-28 06:20:19

NEW YORK, May 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bornila Chatterjee's Let's Be Out, the Sun is Shining has won the 2012 Audience Choice Feature Film Award, sponsored by multi-platform South Asian entertainment service Mela, at the 12th annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF). Chatterjee was presented with a certificate by Pooja Kohli (director of Content and Acquisitions at Mela) at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony that concluded the 5-day event presented by the...

2011-11-29 11:35:00

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mela, a global consumer entertainment service with one of the largest aggregations of premium South Asian video content has formed a strategic partnership with New Jersey based Telugu Magic TV ("TMTV"), which specializes in serving the entertainment needs of the large Telugu community in North America. Mela has strengthened its regional content offering for the Telugu community through this partnership with TMTV. TMTV will...

2011-10-04 07:00:00

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mela, a global multi-platform consumer entertainment service with one of the largest aggregations of premium South Asian video content, has partnered with the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine-Fest, a film festival that promotes and recognizes talents of independent South Asian filmmakers from across the globe. The upcoming NJISACF 2011, scheduled to take place from October 21-23 in Edison, New Jersey, USA, will highlight the...

2011-08-22 07:00:00

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Verismo Networks, a provider of end-to-end solution for broadband entertainment services, today announced the launch of Mela, a global multi-platform consumer entertainment service with one of the largest aggregations of premium South Asian video content. The Mela service will provide consumers with an unparalleled television viewing experience over broadband, combining dozens of live television channels covering news and entertainment,...