The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North, I-85) offers convenient lodging to wrestlers attending the Southeast High School Folkstyle Championships in Atlanta on March 1, 2014. Hosted by Team Georgia Wrestling, the tournament will take place at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta. The event is open to any high school state placer and is a premier warm up for the USAW Folkstyle Nationals. This tournament is the largest wrestling championship in the Southeast, drawing more than 2,000 wrestlers. "We are happy to welcome wrestlers attending the Southeast ...

Sheraton Atlanta Perimeter Hotel North, located at Atlanta Perimeter Center, announces that it is a sponsor of the Secret Stash Bash 2014 on March 1. The event will be held at The Prado, located on Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, Georgia. There are 39 breweries participating in the tastings including 5 Seasons Brewing, Allagash Brewing Company, Anderson Valley Brewing Company, Bell's Inspired Brewing, Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, Blue Point Brewing Company, Brooklyn Brewery, Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, Burnt Hickory Brewery, Sweetwater Brewing Company, New Holland ...

The Knoxville bankruptcy law firm, Clark & Washington, would like to address the question of bankruptcy and whether it is a good option for your family. Having concerns about how the process works as well as how it will affect one's financial future is completely understandable. By no means should bankruptcy be considered a first response, especially when other solutions for one's debt exist. However, it should also not be overlooked as it has worked to the benefit of many individuals and business owners alike. Is Bankruptcy Right for Me? The determining factor ...

With a much broader spectrum of exterior paints available today, homeowners who wish to repaint their houses have a wide range of excellent choices available to them. The Painting Penguin, a leading Atlanta painting contractor, suggests choosing colors that accentuate the best features of your house. If you have a great front door or soaring windows, choose colors that enhance or complement these aspects of your house instead of colors that draw attention away from them. It is also a good idea to consider the landscaping features close to your property when choosing ...

The Atlanta traffic ticket lawyers at Sam McRae Law know that taking a defensive driving course can offer Georgia drivers a variety of benefits, some of which are universal and some of which are specific to Georgia law. The most obvious benefit of a defensive driving course is that it can help you to improve your skills as a driver. You will learn how to drive safely and responsibly either through a basic review of laws or through extensive hands-on training. The duration and complexity of your class will depend largely on the class you choose and your reasons for picking ...

The Deutz diesel engine specialists, APM Heavy Duty, would like to take a moment to talk about what causes marine motors to overheat. The optimal operating temperature is 180 degrees Farenheit, but only when the engine exceeds 200 degrees should you get concerned. Pushing your boat beyond its RPM limits is one way to stress the engine, but often a malfunctioning part is to blame. Since overheating can lead to complete mechanical breakdown, diagnosing and fixing the problem as soon as possible is essential. There are a number of reasons why marine motors overheat, but ...

Personalized learning solutions provider, Fuel Education, in association with education advocacy firm, Getting Smart, today released a white paper defining personalized blended learning in a secondary school environment, and illustrating how this model can lead to successful outcomes. The paper features the expertise of Fuel Education's Gregg Levin, General Manager, and Bruce Lovett, Vice President of Marketing, with Getting Smart's Dr. Carri Schneider, Director of Policy and Research, and Tom Vander Ark, CEO. In addition to the paper, Fuel Education released a complementary ...

Reduction Engineering Scheer, a leading global manufacturer of strand pelletizing systems, has launched a new quick change cutting chamber for strand pelletizer machinery which delivers easy and quick removal of the cutting chamber with minimum downtime. The patent-pending quick change cutting chamber is unique because it features a gearbox which positively drives the upper and lower feed rolls and helps to maintain machine performance and dependability. It is designed specifically for continuous polymerization systems that can't be shut down. The quick change chamber ...

ExhibitCore has released the ExhibitCore Event Planner, the latest version of its online, interactive design and lead generation tools for event professionals. This new offering is uniquely positioned to provide significant value to both event professionals and vendors. This cloud-based floor plan 3D visualization software is the ideal environment to showcase an assortment of industry products. With their new customizable white label interface, any organization can create a branded version of the event planner on their website. Visitors will be able to select from custom ...

DFI Tech, the leading provider of customized hardware solutions for applications in Digital Signage, Interactive Kiosks, Gaming, Industrial Automation, Medical and Broadcast, today announced the availability of the new MK20, a 20" multimedia kiosk and digital signage platform that elevates the user experience to new levels. "We are excited to be first to market with such an innovative platform as the MK20", said Mr. David Lu, CEO of DFI Tech. "The market made it very clear to us that they wanted more capability to elevate the user experience with ...

Booty Slide creator and celebrated fitness expert, Rebecca Kordecki, is pleased to announce the unveiling of her completely titivated fitness and health site - www.rebeccakordecki.com. Members and guests will enjoy a fully remodeled and expanded website that features exciting and invigorating workout videos and RK FIT fitness tips including Kordecki's 14 Day Fat Flush and Booty Lift Program. "My intention with this new site is for it to become a place where people can come to get educated, inspired and motivated to take charge of their health and fitness," ...

Invasive and systemic cancer treatment is a necessary evil for many people with the devastating diagnosis. These patients endure therapies with ravaging side effects, including nausea, immune suppression, hair loss and even organ failure, in hopes of eradicating cancerous tissues in the body. If treatments targeted a patient's cancerous tissues, it could provide clinicians with an alternative to lessen the delivery of toxic levels of chemotherapy or radiation. Imagine the quality of life from such therapies for patients. Remarkably, research that began in space may soon ...

Smart devices - such as tablets and phones - increasingly are an essential part of everyday life on Earth. The same can be said for life off-planet aboard the International Space Station. From astronaut tweets to Google+ Hangouts, our reliance on these mobile and social technologies means equipment and software upgrades are an everyday occurrence - like buying a new pair of shoes to replace a pair of well-worn ones. That's why the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., with funding from the Technology Demonstration Missions ...

Rochester, Minn. — Feb. 27, 2014 — To pull or not to pull? That is a common question when patients have the potentially dangerous combination of abscessed or infected teeth and the need for heart surgery. In such cases, problem teeth often are removed before surgery, to reduce the risk of infections including endocarditis, an infection of the inner lining of the heart that can prove deadly. But Mayo Clinic research suggests it may not be as simple as pulling teeth: The study found that roughly 1 in 10 heart surgery patients who had troublesome teeth extracted before ...

WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2014 — Greater childhood adversity helps to explain why black men are less healthy than white men, and some of this effect appears to operate through childhood adversity's enduring influence on the relationships black men have as adults, according to a new study in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. "Our findings suggest that childhood adversity launches a lifelong process of relationship and health disadvantage for black men," said lead author Debra Umberson, a professor of sociology and a faculty associate in ...

Washington, DC – Spending on health care for children covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) increased between 2009 and 2012, rising an average 5.5 percent a year, with more dollars spent on boys than girls, and higher spending on infants and toddlers (ages 0-3) than any other children's age group, finds a new report released today by the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI). Per capita spending on children reached $2,437 in 2012, a $363 increase from 2009. The study shows a growth in prescription use by children through age 18, as well as a rise in the number of teens ...

[EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY, FEB. 27] A simple change in how the hospital laboratory reports test results may help improve antibiotic prescribing practices and patient safety, according to a pilot, proof-of-concept study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online. No longer routinely reporting positive urine culture results for inpatients at low risk for urinary tract infections (UTIs) greatly reduced unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions and did not affect the treatment of patients who did need antibiotics, the study authors found. Urine cultures ...

(NEW YORK, NY, February 27, 2014) – Approximately one in five U.S. health facilities don't make alcohol-based hand sanitizer available at every point of care, missing a critical opportunity to prevent health care-associated infections, according to new research from Columbia University School of Nursing and the World Health Organization (WHO) published in the American Journal of Infection Control. The study, which examined compliance with WHO hand hygiene guidelines in the U.S., also found that only about half of the hospitals, ambulatory care, and long-term care facilities ...

Being awake at night and dozing during the day can be a distressing early symptom of Alzheimer's disease, but how the disease disrupts our biological clocks to cause these symptoms has remained elusive. Now, scientists from Cambridge have discovered that in fruit flies with Alzheimer's the biological clock is still ticking but has become uncoupled from the sleep-wake cycle it usually regulates. The findings – published in Disease Models & Mechanisms – could help develop more effective ways to improve sleep patterns in people with the disease. People with Alzheimer's ...

People in their 80s are often prescribed drugs to ward off a stroke when the risk of a stroke is not that high and the drugs have other side effects, finds a perspective published online in Evidence Based Medicine. People in this age group are being "over-treated," and doctors need to actively rethink their priorities and beliefs about stroke prevention, argues Dr Kit Byatt of the Department of Geriatric Medicine, The County Hospital in Hereford, UK. Statins and antihypertensive drugs were the most commonly prescribed cardiovascular drugs in the UK in 2006. And they ...

Despite prolonged combat missions to Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been no overall increase in mental health problems among UK soldiers, finds a review of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. But certain groups of soldiers do seem to be more vulnerable to mental ill health on their return home, while alcohol problems continue to give cause for concern among regulars, say the researchers from King's College London. They retrieved published research looking at the psychological impact of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Passive smoking is linked to a significantly increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and ectopic pregnancy, finds a large observational study, published online in Tobacco Control. The risk appears to be cumulative, with risk heightened in parallel with the length of time exposed to second hand smoke, the findings indicate. It is well known that smoking during pregnancy significantly increases the risks of miscarriage and birth complications. What is less clear is whether passive smoking exerts similar effects, and if there are particularly critical periods of exposure ...

Two spotted seals orphaned as pups in the Arctic are now thriving at UC Santa Cruz's Long Marine Laboratory, giving scientists a rare opportunity to learn about how these seals perceive their environment. In a comprehensive study of the hearing abilities of spotted seals, UCSC researchers found that the seals have remarkably sensitive hearing in both air and water. The findings, published February 26 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, are important for understanding how spotted seals might be affected by noise from human activities in the rapidly changing Arctic ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Secondhand smoking is linked with pregnancy loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth and tubal ectopic pregnancy, according to new research from scientists at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and the University at Buffalo (UB). The study findings, published online by the journal Tobacco Control, mark a significant step toward clarifying the risks of secondhand smoke exposure. "This study demonstrated that pregnancy outcomes can be correlated with secondhand smoking. Significantly, women who have never smoked but were exposed to secondhand smoke were ...

This news release is available in German. Most children ill with fever in Tanzania suffer from a viral infection, a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows. A research team led by Dr. Valérie D'Acremont from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel and the Policlinique Médicale Universitaire in Lausanne systematically assessed the causes of febrile illnesses in Tanzanian children. According to the results, in most cases a treatment with antimalarials or antibiotics is not required. The finding has the potential to improve the ...