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TUPELO, Miss., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BancorpSouth, Inc. (NYSE: BXS), today announced the launch of the BancorpSouth Prepaid Card program designed to serve as an alternative to traditional checking accounts. The reloadable cards offer a low-cost, secure alternative ideal for travelers, students and online shoppers. "The Prepaid Card program puts customers in control of their funds, and having no minimum balance or overdraft fees make the cards ideal for budgeting, travel...
Meridian: Enterprise Office Solutions for the Office of the Future, brought to you by the same trusted company you’ve been doing business with for 25 years. Meridian’s award-winning services have stayed the same; only the name has changed. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) January 03, 2013 Meridian Imaging Solutions is thrilled to embark on a new journey as simply, Meridian. The rebranding is part of a company-wide initiative to move beyond traditional workflow navigation solutions and into...
Brandon Brice, a Howard University graduate in International Business Management followed with a MS in Global Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs, University of Columbia, talked about the political influence in American urban education system in a very recent post in Hiphop Republican. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 03, 2013 In a very recent post in Hiphop Republican, Brandon Brice talked about the political influence in American urban education system. In a very...
ROCKLAND, Mass. and NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EMD Serono, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Rebif(®) Rebidose(®) (interferon beta-1a), a single-use auto-injector for the self-administration of Rebif, a disease-modifying drug used to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130103/SF36310LOGO) (Logo:...
Part 1: Overview, progress toward stopping MS. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 27, 2012 MS research continued to advance on many fronts in 2012. This year saw: The approval of a second oral therapy for relapsing forms of MS and other emerging treatments progressing through the development pipeline; The launch of the International Progressive MS Collaborative, the largest effort to date to speed research to stop progressive forms of MS;...
Part 2: Overview, Progress Toward Restoring Function and Ending MS NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National MS Society supported new and ongoing initiatives to propel efforts to restore function to people with MS through its Discovery and Fast Forward research programs. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090302/DC77093LOGO) PROGRESS TOWARD RESTORING FUNCTION LOST TO MS New studies into the potential of adult skin cells and umbilical cord cells as...
Daily weather forecast and wrap-up provided by redOrbit meteorologist Joshua Kelly. redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from December 26: Yesterday the big news was the significant snow storm that spread into the Ohio River Valley with many places seeing well over 6 inches of snow. This significant event also pushed into the Mid-Atlantic where it started as snow and turned into freezing precipitation and then finished with some rainfall. Snowflakes were even...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Patients with debilitating multiple sclerosis may discover just how fast their nervous system disease is progressing with a new quick and easy test. The test, known as an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scan, takes just a few minutes per eye and can be performed at a general practitioner’s surgery. The finding comes from a test of 164 MS patients measuring the thickness of the lining at the back of the eye. The test was...
ROCKLAND, Mass. and NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EMD Serono, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Fast Forward LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, today announced the third group of recipients to receive funding through their collaboration, which is designed to accelerate innovation and commercial development of multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121220/SF32295LOGO-a)...
CANTON, Miss., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With more than 2 million vehicles produced, nearly $2 billion in payroll generated and a decade after the first vehicle rolled off the line in Mississippi, the Nissan Canton Vehicle Assembly Plant is preparing to celebrate its 10(th) anniversary in 2013. The company will commemorate the anniversary with a series of events that highlight the accomplishments of its more than 5,000 employees and underscore its commitment to the Metro Jackson...
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Symbol: SPMI9 Group: Moss Family: Sphagnaceae Growth Habit: Nonvascular Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Division Bryophyta – Mosses Subdivision Musci Class Sphagnopsida – Peat mosses Subclass Sphagnidae Order Sphagnales Family Sphagnaceae Genus Sphagnum L. – sphagnum Species Sphagnum mississippiense R.E....
The Blue sucker, Cycleptus elongatus, is a freshwater species of fish in the sucker family. Huge migrations of these fast, powerful fish once migrated throughout the Mississippi River basin, and spring harvests of blue sucker were a staple food for early pioneers. Blue suckers are quite rare today, mainly due to the segmentation of habitat caused by the thousands of dams that have been built in the last century. Early records indicate that this fish once reached weights of over 40 lb,...
The Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) is an endangered species of fish that exists in the waters of the Mississippi and Missouri River and numerous tributaries. In 1990, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed the species on the endangered species list, as very few young sturgeon had been found in recent years, and also due to the fact that all sightings of the fish had lessened in the preceding decade. The Pallid sturgeon is one of the largest fish found in the Mississippi...
The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear or cinnamon bear, is the most common bear in North America. The black bear can be found throughout much of North America, from northern Canada and Alaska south into Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This includes 39 of the 50 U.S. states and all Canadian provinces. Populations in east-central and the southern United States remain in the protected mountains and woodlands of parks and preserves. While there...
The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. One of the black basses, it is native to a wide area east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, encompassing the Mississippi River basin, the Saint Lawrence River"“Great Lakes system, and up into the Hudson Bay basin, as well as down into Florida, Texas, and northeastern Mexico. The largemouth bass is distinguished by a series of dark blotches forming a ragged...
