Heard of Guana Island? Probably not, even though it's home to the oldest and arguably most luxurious resort in the British Virgin Islands. The 850-acre island boasts seven pristine powder-white sand beaches, acres of tropical forest (the island is also a wildlife sanctuary), 15 sea-view cottages and 3 exclusive villas--one of which is a decadent 10,000 square feet and features a heated infinity pool winding around the house. With a maximum capacity of only 42 guests and a staff of 50, that works out to just over 20 acres per guest and more than one staff member per guest. ...

Marina del Rey Toyota, a premier dealership in the Los Angeles area, is a firm believer in giving back to the community in which they serve, which is why they recently donated $5,000 to the Venice High School Girls Basketball Team. The donation was presented on January 25th, 2013, and was given to the head coach of the girls team, Dominick Flores. General Manager Kevin Ray and Vice President Jamie Bishton were the presenters of the check. Dominick states, "It means so much to us that Marina del Rey Toyota has been able to support our Girls Basketball Team for the ...

FracRock International, Inc. ("FracRock or the Company") today announced that it has signed an agreement with Manek Energy LLC, an experienced oilfield service company based in Rockwall, Texas ("Manek"). Under the terms of the agreement, Manek will contribute a newly manufactured 40,500 horsepower hydraulic frac equipment package and a fully trained, experienced hydraulic fracturing crew to FracRock in exchange for an interest free convertible note. The note will be automatically convertible into shares of FrackRock upon the occurrence of certain events. ...

A new book teaches people how to buy valuable timeshares at steep discounts. The book "Winning the TImeshare Game: Buying the Bargains" has just been released and is available on Amazon.com. Key topics in this timeshare buyer's guide include: * How to buy an expensive timeshare for as little as $1. * Where to find the bargains, and how to evaluate them so you can tell the good buys from the lemons. * In-depth discussion of the finances of timeshares, and how to calculate the true costs of buying and owning a timeshare. * Common timeshare scams, and ...

Cameleon Software announced today that CameleonTouch, its mobile CPQ application, has been highlighted as a "social" app on the world's leading business apps marketplace. After an advanced evaluation, Cameleon mobile CPQ has been highlighted as a "Social App" on Salesforce.com's AppExchange. This distinction demonstrates that CameleonTouch, the latest version of Cameleon mobile CPQ, is a collaborative and innovative solution which strongly improves the user experience through social and mobile networks. "Cameleon Software was the first vendor ...

Kami Dempsey and husband Nathan were welcomed to the It Works! Global's elite "Millionaire's Club" on January 18, 2013 after earning more than one million dollars for the year 2012. The couple was honored to accept the award and take the stage at the Tampa Convention Center for It Works! Global's Annual Freedom Conference 2013 (6,000 plus in attendance). They were awarded with a special Millionaire's Club plaque along with a framed copy of the Millionaire's Club-2012 Million Dollar Earners' Award. "We had both been ready for a career change but actually ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions, today announced they will be hosting a no-cost, 60-minute educational Webinar event titled "Accounts Payable Best Practices: To Automate or Not." This Webinar, hosted by Rob DeVincent, Corcentric's Vice President of Product Marketing, will take place on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT. Over-reliance on people and paper-based processes is one of the greatest pain points companies are facing. Accounts Payable departments are burdened with paper-intensive ...

The Bad Boy of Country Rock, Jimmie Lee-The Jersey Outlaw, releases his new hot single, Spanish Girl! This new single officially releases on February 6th , to radio and country music television in select cities. This single is part of Jimmies new upcoming album, American Rebel, due out for release in the Spring, 2013! The hit single , Spanish Girl, is a beautiful ballad, Springsteen style, about the guy who gambles and gets his senorita! The song showcases the intimate side of the Jersey Outlaw, and truly demonstrates that Jimmie can sing both high octane songs as well ...

AskDerm.com has carefully selected Dermelect to add to their selection of clinically proven skincare products because of their unique "Minimal Time, Maximum Results!" approach to skincare. "The average woman doesn't need more skin care products-just better ones that take up less time," said Lee Jacobson, VP of Commercial Operations for AskDerm.com. Dermelect has assembled a team of medical professionals; licensed estheticians and experts in skin and nail care to create a unique, targeted solutions range that is universal, multi-functional and cutting-edge. ...

The latest research from Bike Trader, the UK's leading used bike marketplace, shows that the most searched bike in 2012 was the Honda CBR, well ahead of the Yamaha YZF and the Suzuki GSXR. A total of 2.14 million consumers searched specifically for the CBR with 1.54 million searching for the YZF and 1.37 million for the GSXR. Honda and Suzuki bikes dominated the top ten list of searches with four and three bikes respectively plus one each from BMW, Kawasaki and Yamaha. The Bike Trader website attracted a total of 52.3 million searches in 2012, up 9% on 2011, 33% of which ...

MAYWOOD, Il. - Each year, as many as 500,000 Americans experience mini strokes called transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). Symptoms quickly go away, usually within an hour, and many people don't seek treatment. But 10 to 15 percent of people who experience TIAs will experience full-blown strokes within three months, and 40 percent of these strokes will occur in the first 24 hours, according to an article by three Loyola University Medical Center neurologists in the journal Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. Rapid evaluation and treatment of TIA patients, either in ...

Climate change is a hotly debated issue among many scientists, but a new study published by a University of Alberta researcher notes that geoscientists and engineers also become embroiled in the issue—and for some, it can get surprisingly personal. Lianne Lefsrud, a PhD student in the Alberta School of Business, surveyed the membership of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta regarding their beliefs on climate change and its causes, and on where responsibility for change rests. The responses reflected the rational, logical debates that ...

The cancer death rate for men declined faster among African Americans than among whites in the latest time period, narrowing the racial disparity in overall cancer death rates, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. But while gaps are closing for some cancers, such as lung and other smoking-related cancers and for prostate cancer, the racial disparity has widened for colorectal cancer and female breast cancer, cancers that are most affected by screening and treatment. The findings are published in Cancer Statistics for African Americans, 2013 which ...

Most mammals, including humans, see in stereo and hear in stereo. But whether they can also smell in stereo is the subject of a long-standing scientific controversy. Now, a new study shows definitively that the common mole (Scalopus aquaticus) – the same critter that disrupts the lawns and gardens of homeowners throughout the eastern United States, Canada and Mexico – relies on stereo sniffing to locate its prey. The paper that describes this research, "Stereo and Serial Sniffing Guide Navigation to an Odor Source in a Mammals," was published on Feb. 5 in the ...

Modern telecommunications happens because of fast electrons and fast photons. Can it get better? Can Moore's law---the doubling of computing power ever 18 months or so---be sustained? Can the compactness (nm-scale components) of electronics be combined with the speed of photonics? Well, one such hybrid approach is being explored at the Joint Quantum Institute (*), where scientists bring together three marvelous physics research fields: microfluidics, quantum dots, and plasmonics to probe and study optical nanostructures with spatial accuracy as fine as 12 nm. ...

February 5, 2013—Ottawa—Ottawa scientists have discovered a trigger that turns muscle stem cells into brown fat, a form of good fat that could play a critical role in the fight against obesity. The findings from Dr. Michael Rudnicki's lab, based at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, were published today in the prestigious journal Cell Metabolism. "This discovery significantly advances our ability to harness this good fat in the battle against bad fat and all the associated health risks that come with being overweight and obese," says Dr. Rudnicki, a senior scientist ...

Among older women, getting a mammogram every two years was just as beneficial as getting a mammogram annually, and led to significantly fewer false positive results, according to a study led by UC San Francisco. The national study of more than 140,000 women between the ages of 66 and 89 appears online February 5, 2013, in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "Screening every other year, as opposed to every year, does not increase the probability of late-stage breast cancer in older women," said lead author Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, a UCSF assistant professor ...

Anyone who has seen the movie "Impossible" or watched footage from the Japanese tsunami has learned the terror that can strike with little warning. In those cases, when there is no time to flee, there may still be time to reach higher ground, called vertical evacuation. But as you race to the third floor, how do you know if the building will hold up? Walls of water are not the only danger. Another potentially lethal challenge is water-driven debris - such as 60,000-pound fully loaded cargo containers - transformed into projectiles. Often pulled behind semi-trucks on highways, ...

Here's another reason why you should include olive oil in your diet: A new research report published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that at least one compound in olive oil significantly reduces intestinal ischemia (restricted blood supply) and the resulting reperfusion injury (tissue damage caused when blood supply returns). The compound, called "oleuropein aglycone," is the most prominent polyphenol found in olive oil and could become a novel therapeutic target aimed at treating intestinal ischemia and reperfusion injury in humans. Ultimately, this research ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a classroom design that gives instructors increased flexibility in how to teach their courses and improves accessibility for students, while slashing administrative costs. Specifically, the new classrooms take advantage of the fact that students are bringing their own technology – such as laptops – to class. The classrooms also include mobile infrastructure, where whiteboards, desks and tables can be reconfigured according to the needs of students and instructors. "These classrooms work really well in terms ...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Feb. 5, 2013 – Patients who experience chest pain in the 24 hours preceding a heart attack, also called preinfarction angina, have smaller heart attacks and improved cardiac function in the contemporary cardiac stenting era, researchers found in a study published Jan. 22 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. "Even before we began treating heart attack patients with angioplasty and stenting, physicians recognized that patients with chest pain prior to their heart attack seem to have better outcomes," says the study's senior author, Jay H. Traverse, ...

COMPASS uses the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Inclined Geosynchronous Satellite Orbit (IGSO) satellites, which are more suitable for regional services. Its constellation is composed of 14 satellites, including 5 GEO, 5 IGSO satellites and 4 Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites. As of 2012, 13 satellites have been launched. Except for G2 (unusable) and M1 (testing only), the remaining 11 satellites, including 4GEO+5IGSO+2MEO, have successfully transmitted signals and broadcasted navigational messages, to prepare for full operation starting in 2013. Positioning accuracy ...

Research has shown that mutations in the psen1 gene are common in the familial forms of Alzheimer's disease, and the Presenilin-1 protein that the gene encodes is known to be involved in the cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein. In Alzheimer's disease the amyloid precursor protein is not cleaved the normal way, and the protein accumulates in the brain damaging neuronal tracts and neurons. It is still unknown if the psen1 gene is involved in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease via another mechanism. Professor Pertti Panula's research team at the University of Helsinki ...

A previously poorly investigated signalling pathway is crucial for the growth and proliferation of prostate cancer cells. An international research team discovered this when studying the enzyme "soluble adenylyl cyclase" that produces the second messenger molecule cAMP. When the scientists inhibited the enzyme, the cancer cell proliferation was suppressed. The team led by Dr. Yury Ladilov from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum reported together with colleagues from the Department of Urology at the RUB and the Cornell University in New ...

Topological insulators are novel materials that are insulating in the bulk but have surface states that are conducting. These surface states are topologically protected and possess several intriguing properties with the promise of potential applications. As a result, topological insulators have attracted many theoretical and experimental studies in the last few years. More recently, the potential of interfacing topological insulators with other materials with quantum states to make hybrid structures has been recognized and a slew of new studies are underway. Professor Jian ...