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ST. JOHNS, Fla., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bill Long, President of the Automotive Aftermarket Supplier's Association and Bill Moss, Owner of Euro Service Automotive (Warranton, VA) were elected May 16, 2013 to the Board of Directors of the National Automotive Service Task Force. Additionally, Steve Douglas, Environmental Affairs Director for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers was elected to a Board officer position of Treasurer/Secretary. Long steps in to NASTF as...

BURLINGTON, Mass., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomophase Corporation, a leading developer of minimally invasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) tissue imaging devices, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with MOSS S.p.A. of Italy. The distribution agreement with MOSS covers the Tomophase product line including the OCT Imaging System, OCTIS(TM) and the OCTIS Probes in the territory Italy and San Marino. Upon signing, MOSS also purchased two systems for...

Special Program offers Free Oil and Filter Changes for Car Purchased from Auto Group. (PRWEB) February 17, 2013 Moss Bros. Auto Group, the Inland Empire’s premier family-owned auto group, announced the launch of its ‘Lifetime Oil & Filter Change’ program. Any vehicle purchased from the wide variety of Moss Bros. Auto Group dealerships on or after January 1, 2013 is automatically eligible for free lifetime oil and filter changes for as long as the customer owns the vehicle....

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are in! Over two thousand BabyNames.com members weighed in on the best and worst celebrity baby names of 2012: Worst Girl Name:Blue Ivy (Beyonce, Jay Z) 47.1%Runner up: Lukensia (Jillian Michaels, Heidi Rhoades) 29.1% Worst Boy Name:Lion (Alex O'Loughlin, Malia Jones 42.5%Runner up: Kash Kade (Kim Zolciak, Kroy Bierman) 41.8% Best Girl Name:Charlotte Grace (Jenn Schefft, Joe Waterman) 24.1%Runner up: Violet Isabel (Emily...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Bogs and mires are important ecosystems that also play an important role the storage of global atmospheric carbon emissions. According to a study in Nature Climate Change, the peat mosses, which are found in boglands and drive the production of peat, are being outcompeted by vascular plants, resulting in bog degradation. In the study, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) closely...

So what is it about moss that is making it more and more popular these days? According to Heidi Masucci, Operations Manager at Moss Acres, it seems that most people just "love the way it makes them feel - almost like a kid again, playing barefoot in the woods near a pond or stream." Al Benner, owner of Moss Acres goes on to explain: "More than likely it is the visual element of moss and the wide variety of vivid shades of green that elicit this soothing effect. Studies...

NEW YORK, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- People the world over are flocking to connect and share news and views via social media sites, and investor interest in them is at a fever pitch. However, according to entrepreneur, technologist and author Frank Moss, "We can do much better. Meaningful innovation is stagnating in America. Yes, we can access any information, and connect with anyone, anytime from our mobile devices. But if we are to thrive, and not just survive, in the 21st century, we...

BIRKIRKARA, Malta, April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The British Golf Invitational Series took place on the 24th of March at the Johannesburg Country Club where a large number of British expats gathered together for a good cause. The deVere charity event included a golf tournament of about 62 golfers, which was followed by a special interview with Legendary former F1 race car driver Sir Stirling Moss, which was conducted by local radio presenter Dan Nicholl. The event proceeded with a British...

BUFFALO, N.Y., March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning AC / Country artist Jimmy White has been a pet lover for many years and recently was honored to contribute a song to a benefit CD that was very close to his heart. White contributed his heart-felt single "Good Friends are Hard to Find" to the "Bands 4 Bella" benefit CD that has just been released by the Bella Moss Foundation. This CD is a compilation of songs from 17 recording artists from the Buffalo, NY area. These artists each...

Biology researchers discover that bacteria living in mosses on tree branches twice as effective at "˜fixing' nitrogen as those on the groundA new study by Dr. Zoë Lindo, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at McGill University, and Jonathan Whiteley, a doctoral student in the same department, shows that large, ancient trees may be very important in helping forests grow.These findings highlight the importance of maintaining the large old-growth trees in the coastal...