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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. John Schiro DDS is now announcing the grand opening of his new cosmetic dentistry practice in Austin Texas. Dr. John Schiro is an Austin cosmetic dentist providing "smile makeover" cosmetic dentistry. Cosmetic dentistry helps people with damaged, chipped, crooked, discolored, or missing teeth get a beautiful new smile that makes them look more attractive and feel more confident.

Dr. John Schiro's new cosmetic dentistry practice is now open and accepting new patients who want to improve their smiles. Cosmetic dentistry services provided include dental implants, porcelain veneers, all-porcelain tooth crowns, dental bridges, sedation dentistry and reconstructive dentistry. John Schiro's dental office is located at 2700 Barton Creek Blvd in Austin, Texas.

"After founding and building one of largest cosmetic dentistry practices in world -- 'Smile Texas' in the Houston-area -- I decided to move to Austin, Texas and open another practice closer to home," stated John Schiro DDS - Austin Cosmetic Dentist. "Today, I'm helping people get beautiful smiles with cosmetic dentistry at our new dental office in Austin Texas. I help people who have decayed and damaged teeth get a beautiful, natural-looking new smile with cosmetic dentistry procedures including: tooth-colored all-porcelain veneers, all-porcelain tooth crowns and dental bridges, full mouth reconstruction and dental implants. I look forward to helping people in the Austin Texas area who want to improve their smile."

For more information about the cosmetic dentistry services offered by Austin Cosmetic Dentistry or to schedule your complimentary consultation, call (512) 382-5888 or visit their website online:

http://www.AustinCosmeticDentistry.com/

About Austin Cosmetic Dentistry

John Schiro DDS is an award-winning cosmetic dentist in Austin Texas providing in smile makeovers, dental implants, porcelain veneers, all-porcelain tooth crowns, dental bridges, reconstructive dentistry, sedation dentistry and more. Transform your smile with Austin Cosmetic Dentistry.  Call (512) 382-5888 for your free consultation or visit www.AustinCosmeticDentistry.com for more information.

SOURCE Austin Cosmetic Dentistry

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Obama administration made another attempt at placating the millions of Americans who have moral and religious objections to being forced to cover or pay for contraceptive services. This mandate, issued in August, includes drugs that work after conception to destroy life rather than prevent it. The January 20th decision to grant a one year delay and add a referral requirement showed that the administration had no intention of providing conscience protections but wanted to defuse the political problem.

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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins had the following to say:

"This revised HHS mandate does nothing to change the fundamentally anti-religious, anti-conscience and anti-life contraceptive mandate.  It rather only creates some paperwork gimmicks that don't change the fact that religious employers who object to coverage of these services will now have to drop health insurance altogether to maintain their conscience and face severe penalties for doing so.

"This President is tone deaf to the very real religious and moral objections of millions of Americans. The so-called one year delay last month was a clear slap in the face of religious groups, and this new proposal still requires religious entities that are not exempt as a church to subsidize and pay insurance companies so they can give free birth control to their employees.  However, it won't be free, because the insurance companies will increase the premium and administrative costs to the employer.

"This new gimmick forces religious entities to violate their religious beliefs and continues to show a complete disdain for the First Amendment. There is no compromise if a single American citizen is required to violate his or her conscience.  Liberals say keep your morals out of the bedroom, yet the President's plan forces everyone to pay the cost for someone else's contraceptive use in the bedroom. That's not freedom, it's a mandate.

"The President and his senior counselors have run into an immovable wall of truth which is fixed and absolute.  No political machinations they attempt will surmount the unshakeable religious and moral convictions of those of us opposing this government order. We urge Congress to pass the Fortenberry/Blunt bi-partisan 'Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2011.'"

SOURCE Family Research Council

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration today published a final rule in The Federal Register that will increase some of the size definitions of small businesses in Professional, Scientific and Technical Services and Other Services sectors.

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The final rule will increase 37 of the revenue-based size standards in 34 industries and three sub-industries in the "Professional, Scientific and Technical Services" sector.  It will also increase one size standard in the "Other Services" sector.

As part of an ongoing review of all size standards, the SBA evaluated all of the revenue-based size standards in these sectors to determine whether to revise the existing size standards.  SBA took into account the structural characteristics within individual industries, including average firm size, the degree of competition, and federal government contracting trends to ensure that size definitions reflect current economic conditions within those industries.  Under provisions in the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, SBA will continue its comprehensive review of all size standards for the next several years. 

After receiving numerous public comments to the proposed rule published in The Federal Register on March 16, 2011, the SBA determined that increasing the size standards in these industries:

• will enable more small businesses to retain their small business status; and
• will give federal agencies a larger selection of small businesses to choose from for small business procurement opportunities. 

SBA estimates as many as 8,350 additional firms will become eligible for SBA programs as a result of these revisions. 

An SBA-issued White Paper entitled, "Size Standards Methodology", which explains how the SBA establishes, reviews and modifies its receipts-based and employee-based small business size standards can be viewed at http://www.sba.gov/size.  For more information about SBA's revisions to its small business size standards, click on "What's New with Size Standards" on SBA's Web site at: http://www.sba.gov/size.   

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SOURCE U.S. Small Business Administration