Today, Lakewood-based HomeSphere Inc. announced that Eldorado Stone will join BRI, its growing digital lead-generation and customer loyalty platform, opening up new revenue opportunities for the brand. Eldorado Stone, which offers one of the most diverse collections of stone and brick veneer in the industry, will connect HomeSphere's growing builder network to authentic, quality products and one of the largest distribution networks nationwide. With more than 50 profiles and 150 color palettes to choose from, Eldorado Stone puts the power of choice in builders' hands, ...

Red Level Networks announced it has been recognized as the Best Place to work in 2014. This annual award highlights businesses within the city of Novi which create an optimal working environment for their employees. Examples include businesses that have taken efforts to create a pleasant work environment, innovation or career advancement. "What is our secret?" asks David King, president and founder of Red Level Networks. "Our commitment to our employees! For the past 4 consecutive years, Red Level has been recognized as one of Metropolitan Detroit's ...

The 2013/2014 Saturday Academy - PREP Program has been an exciting year for the PREP students. The students take part in several competitions to expose them to science, technology, engineering, and math activities. Currently, the students are preparing for the Ten80 Student Racing Challenge. The Ten80 Education Student Racing Challenge NASCAR STEM Initiative was developed to expose students to lessons in math and science. Electric radio controlled cars are used to educate students in STEM fields. Student teams are formed to collaborate, create and compete in a competition ...

Preventable medical errors kill 440,000 patients in the U.S. each year, making it the third leading cause of death. Yet, this killer flies under the radar. Politicians have blamed frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits for the nation's problems with health care, but numerous studies discredit this theory - and fairly easily, too. Hospitals spend millions to promote themselves as altruistic businesses doing the public a great service. The problem of substandard health care is carefully being tucked away, out of sight. Fortunately, a new publication with comprehensive ...

SocialWorkerDegreeLink.com is of the best in online resources which provides information about careers, schools and trends in social work. Now, more than ever, people can get the information they need if they want to enter the social worker industry. This website gives those people a great opportunity to dive right in. In order to help aspiring social workers understand their school and career options, SocialWorkerDegreeLink.com showcases several resources for potential students to use. The website is divided into easily navigated sections, ensuring efficient and fast ...

The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North, I-85) offers convenient lodging to guests attending the Mid-Winter 2014 Bronner Bros. International Hair Show in Atlanta February 22-25, 2014. The event will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. For more than 50 years industry professionals and students have attended Bronner Bros. Hair Shows to learn the latest beauty trends. In addition to its styling shows, Bronner Bros. manufactures and distributes hair and skin care product lines for African Americans. The upcoming show in Atlanta ...

The disposable diapers company, Stork Nest, wants to remind parents to check out their huge selection of discount diapers online. If you are planning on having your first child, just know that disposable diapers will be no small monthly expense. The infant stage eats the most into your baby budget because newborns usually need to be changed every two hours. That can easily equate to three hundred diapers a month. Considering that the diaper dilemma does not stop until your little one is fully potty-trained between the ages of two and three, the cost of those diapers ...

Orlando emergency plumber Choice Plumbing encourages Orlando residents to Like its Facebook page, which can be found at https://www.facebook.com/ChoicePlumbingOrlando. The company's Facebook page offers a bevy of information, news, tips, and special discounts that Orlando residents may find helpful. Choice Plumbing's Facebook page is a part of a larger-scale effort to interact with its customers online. As a part of this effort, the Orlando water damage restoration specialists have also created a brand new blog and upgraded their website. "We are very excited ...

T.O. Plastics has added new extrusion equipment in its Clearwater plant that will enable the thermoforming company to increase its capacity for ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) and HIPS (high-impact polystyrene) roll stock for use in its own operations and for sale to other companies. The company plans to offer utility or prime grade HIPS and ABS plastic sheet in gauges from .015" to .070". Roll widths are 20" to 30.75" with a 6" core size. The extruded plastic sheet is available in black or white as standard colors, or custom colors ...

PediaCities, an online encyclopedia of data about New York City, has released an enhanced interactive crime map based on the New York Police Department's point crime data. The map is available at http://nyc.pediacities.com/crimemap. The PediaCities Crime Map allows users to compare crime in different parts of the city - aggregated by police precinct, neighborhood, borough, zip code, city council districts, and community districts. This is the first time crime data has been aggregated along familiar geographies, and not just along precinct boundaries, as was the ...

T.O. Plastics, a leading U.S. manufacturer of custom thermoformed packaging and parts in the food, medical, industrial, recreational, consumer products and horticulture markets, announced today the new members of its senior management team who will report directly to President Mike Vallafskey. Tony Reinhardt, Vice President of Finance Tony Reinhardt joined T.O. Plastics on September 16, 2013, as Vice President of Finance. As head of T.O. Plastics' finance team, Tony will be responsible for maintaining the company's financial well-being while strengthening the foundation ...

Join this one-of-a-kind, FREE workshop that combines innovative thinking on workplace diversity, inclusion, and immigration strategies. Event is hosted by the Herman Legal Group, LLC and Visibility Marketing, Inc. **** and stay after for the Multicultural Happy Hour! Workshop Details: Monday, March 3, 2014 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM Embassy Suites Cleveland - Rockside 5800 Rockside Woods Boulevard Independence, OH 44131 RSVP: Make your reservation on Eventbrite http://tinyurl.com/ClevelandImmigrationlawyer or by calling Connie Cook at (216) 696-6170 or ...

Thinking of the first to do in a foreign city on your first day? You may try being adventurous, come what may and do whatever. Or why not, let us organize your tour with a local travel guide. This is a way to revolutionize the way you explore new destinations through Westhill Consulting Travel & Tours. Is it a walking tour with a difference that you wanted or an adrenaline-fuelled activity that thrills you the most? Westhill connects you to the place and will make your stay memorable and enjoyable. This can be seen in the company's past success overseas launching ...

Milwaukee-based Koss Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of stereo headphones and accessories for global consumers, has completed the movement of some of its manufacturing from China-based vendors to its own manufacturing operations in Mexico. The company recently began operations in Ciudad Juarez to assemble Koss' products. The Koss Corporation established its new Mexico operations through the El Paso-based, Tecma Group of Companies, and has signed a five year contract for what are commonly referred to as "shelter services" in Mexico. According to ...

Leaders of the brewing, distribution and technology industries have formed the new Beer Industry Technology Symposium, BITS, to create a dedicated industry forum where technology and strategy intersect. The first BITS will be held in Napa, California in conjunction with the Wine Industry Technology Symposium - WITS June 30 & July 1, 2014 at the Napa Valley Marriott. The purpose of BITS is to address the unique information technology, and service needs, of the beer industry. BITS is dedicated to bringing the world's leading beer industry professionals together with ...

New research shows that lying about performance on one task may increase creativity on a subsequent task by making people feel less bound by conventional rules. The findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. "The common saying that 'rules are meant to be broken' is at the root of both creative performance and dishonest behavior," says lead researcher Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School. "Both creativity and dishonesty, in fact, involve rule breaking." To examine the link between dishonesty and creativity, ...

Breast cancer patients receiving radiotherapy showed decreased fatigue as a result of cognitive behavioral therapy plus hypnosis (CBTH), according to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study, titled, "Randomized Controlled Trial of a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Plus Hypnosis Intervention to Control Fatigue in Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer," was led by Guy Montgomery, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Integrative Behavioral Medicine Program in the Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine ...

Forty African countries showed reductions in malaria transmission between 2000-2010, but despite this progress, more than half (57 per cent) of the population in countries endemic for malaria continue to live in areas of moderate to intense transmission, with infection rates over 10 per cent. The findings are based on a series of prevalence maps for malaria published this week in the Lancet. A team led by Dr Abdisalan Noor and Professor Robert Snow of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme produced the maps by geocoding data from surveys in 44 African countries and ...

The synthetic chemicals used in the packaging, storage, and processing of foodstuffs might be harmful to human health over the long term, warn environmental scientists in a commentary in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. This is because most of these substances are not inert and can leach into the foods we eat, they say. Despite the fact that some of these chemicals are regulated, people who eat packaged or processed foods are likely to be chronically exposed to low levels of these substances throughout their lives, say the authors. And far too little ...

The restricted availability of defibrillators, and poor understanding of how to use them, are helping to boost the number of deaths from heart attacks occurring outside hospitals, suggests a study of one English county, published online in the journal Heart. This is despite several campaigns to increase the numbers of these life-saving devices in public places, and the acknowledgement of the importance of their role in the English government's Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Strategy, published last March, say the authors. Every minute of delay in administering resuscitation ...

The brains of jazz musicians engrossed in spontaneous, improvisational musical conversation showed robust activation of brain areas traditionally associated with spoken language and syntax, which are used to interpret the structure of phrases and sentences. But this musical conversation shut down brain areas linked to semantics — those that process the meaning of spoken language, according to results of a study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track the brain activity of jazz musicians in the act of "trading ...

Have you ever noticed that your best friends speak the same way? A new University of British Columbia study finds we prefer voices that are similar to our own because they convey a soothing sense of community and social belongingness. While previous research has suggested that we prefer voices that sound like they are coming from smaller women or bigger men, the new study – published today in the journal PLOS ONE – identifies a variety of other acoustic signals that we find appealing. [NB: Article available at: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088616] "The ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have identified gene variants that cause a rare syndrome of sporadic fevers, skin rashes and recurring strokes, beginning early in childhood. The team's discovery coincides with findings by an Israeli research group that identified an overlapping set of variants of the same gene in patients with a similar type of blood vessel inflammation. The NIH group first encountered a patient with the syndrome approximately 10 years ago. The patient, then 3 years old, experienced fevers, skin rash and strokes that left her severely disabled. ...

Research published today from Queen Mary University of London reveals less than 1 in 3 women have taken folic acid supplements before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida and other birth defects of the brain, spine, or spinal cord (neural tube defects). This is despite research from 1991 showing that such conditions could be prevented in most cases by increasing the intake of the B-vitamin folic acid before pregnancy. The study, carried out by Queen Mary's Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and published in the journal PLOS ONE, questioned nearly half a million women ...

Scientists at Imperial College London have discovered that iron deficiency may increase stroke risk by making the blood more sticky. The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE, could ultimately help with stroke prevention. Every year, 15 million people worldwide suffer a stroke. Nearly six million die and another five million are left permanently disabled. The most common type, ischaemic stroke, occurs because the blood supply to the brain is interrupted by small clots. In the last few years, several studies have shown that iron deficiency, which affects around ...