Ashton Woods Homes Raleigh (http://www.ashtonwoodshomes.com), the North Carolina division of an award-winning national private home builder, will host a grand opening event on Tuesday, Jan. 8 for its new Leesville Crest neighborhood, conveniently located in the heart of North Raleigh. The exclusive grand opening, which will be open to Triangle real estate agents and brokers, will take place from 1 p.m. through 5 p.m. at the neighborhood's model home, the Fairmont, located at 6637 Rest Haven Drive. The company will celebrate its community opening with a decadent dessert ...

InterCredit, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the brand's new website: http://www.intercreditusa.com. The January 2013 launch is scheduled to coincide with the beginning of the New Year where InterCredit, Inc. will unveil its new upgraded software InterFex Online that will be available for the public this 2013. The new website offers a contemporary look and streamlined user experience. It features enhanced resources and functionality designed exclusively for the International Business Community and strategic end-users. The website is a true resource for traders ...

In today's media and trending news there's not much talk about inspiration, greatness, hope, genius or motivation, which leads to millions of people living on the edge, waiting for the next tragedy to flash across the television, pop out on the internet or arrive via text message. Well one book is on a mission to change the status quo and empower everyone from the junior high student to the corporate CEO. Germaine Moody's new book "Discover Wisdom: 100 Days of Inspiration and Power" does just that in addition to countering our chaotic perceptions of the world. ...

SfL+a Architects (http://www.sfla-architects.com/) has announced that Brian Williams, telecommunications infrastructure designer, has received his Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) certification. Williams, who joined the firm in March of 2012, boasts 18 years of engineering experience and pursued this certification in order to offer a higher level of service to SfL+a Architects' clients. RCDD certification, which is globally recognized within the telecommunications industry as a designation of the exceptional qualifications of an individual, is the ...

North Raleigh Florist (http://www.northraleighflorist.com), located at 7457 Six Forks Road, has announced the release of a podcast on the best flowers for this year's winter season. In the podcast, Janice Cutler, president and owner of North Raleigh Florist, discusses the best seasonal flower choices as well as how to substitute for flowers that are unavailable at this time of year. She differentiates between proper floral choices during the Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's holidays, and discusses what kinds of flowers are available at a discount and how to incorporate ...

Known in San Antonio and Austin as one of the top innovative companies in the granite business, Fox Granite once again sets the bar for all other companies to follow. "It's not enough to just install quality granite countertops; rather, it is imperative to provide our clients with the most efficient and customer friendly experience in the business," says Greg Fox -owner. It's with great pleasure that Fox announces the launch of its fully redesigned website on January 15th. As technology has taken the granite industry into a new era, Fox acknowledges that most ...

Dr. Richard Chaffoo now offers Sientra's Silimed high-strength cohesive gel implants at his Murrieta and La Jolla plastic surgery offices. "We are excited to offer this quality line of silicone implants," Dr. Chaffoo says. "The sheer variety of Silimed implants will provide my patients with a greatly expanded selection." Dr. Chaffoo will continue to offer other brands of silicone and saline implants along with the Silimed line. The brand, which includes a variety of implant sizes and shapes manufactured by a subsidiary of the California company ...

Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys is proud to announce that Attorney Gordon McKernan has once again been named to the Louisiana Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in Louisiana for 2013. No more than 5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers. About Super Lawyers Super Lawyers (www.superlawyers.com), is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selections are made annually using a rigorous multi-phased process, including ...

Dr. Hugh Rosenblatt, dentist in Boynton Beach, FL, is happy to be featuring a variety of educational information as a part of his practice's website. He hopes the information will provide his patients with the information they need to maintain the health of their teeth and gums. "I am very happy that our website is featuring educational information. I strongly believe that the more educated a patient is, the better chance they have of having a healthy mouth and lifestyle. I hope that many of our patients will take some time to look through the educational resources ...

Dr. Paul Rocke, Littleton orthodontist, is happy to be using social media to help communicate with his patients online. By using his practice's Twitter and Facebook accounts and a practice blog, he hopes to increase his practice's online presence and make it easier for his patients to interact with his practice on the Internet. "I am very happy that our practice is utilizing social media to communicate with patients on the Internet. I know that many of our patients use these services on a daily basis and I am glad our practice is now available on social media. ...

Dr. Harvey Reiter, dentist in Las Cruces, is excited to be featuring a simple appointment request form as a part of his practice's website. By using this tool, patients are able to schedule an appointment at the practice without having to pick up the phone. "I am very glad that our practice is making it simple for patients to request appointments on our website. We are always looking for ways to make our practice more patient-friendly and this is a great example of that. I hope that many of our patients will use this tool in the future to schedule appointments ...

Dr. Kurt Barnes, dentist in Appleton, is excited to be featuring a variety of helpful educational information on his practice's website. He hopes the educational material will help to give his patients the knowledge necessary to maintain the health of their teeth and gums. "I am very glad that our practice is providing some educational material on our website. I strongly believe that the more educated a patient is, the better chance they have of having healthy teeth and gums. I hope that many of our patients will take a few minutes to explore the educational material ...

In recent years, residents in several U.S. states have pushed to add marijuana legalization initiatives to election ballots. While no such initiative has reached the ballot here in New York state, proponents continue to push for legalization at least for medical use. New York state Sen. Diane Savino recently said she hopes to make New York the 18th state to legalize medical marijuana, noting "there is a huge amount of revenue" available to the state if it does so. While marijuana for medicinal use has steadily gained favor in many states, legalizing pot for ...

Recently, at an American Bar Association sponsored Criminal Tax Conference in Las Vegas, John McDougal, special trial attorney and division counsel for the IRS, stated, "You are going to hear more from us on that, it just hasn't hit the press yet." At this conference McDougal and others outlined for attendees the Service's plans and steps taken to address the continual problem of unreported foreign income. It has always been the goal of such efforts to encourage people to come into compliance, primarily through the different reincarnations of the Offshore Voluntary ...

Ear Consultants of Central New York is a specialty practice focused on the diagnosis and treatment of hearing and balance disorders in children and adults. Under the direction of Hayes H. Wanamaker, M.D., a Board certified and fellowship trained ear surgeon with more than twenty years of experience, they serve a broad geographic area around Syracuse, NY. With the most experienced staff in the area, including a specialized Nurse Practitioner and our Audiologists, as well as close working relationships with Balance therapists, Neurologists, and other medical professionals, ...

Smokers Utopia, known as the most brutal e cigarette review site in the world announces their Volcano e cigarette review. Volcano has been in the business since 2009 and has a long history of great products, but as Smokers Utopia states, they all have something that is lacking. Their Vapor Couture review is more proof of their brutal honesty and dedication to providing information that that helps protect smokers from spending money on products that do not fit their lifestyle. "We want all smokers to give the e cig a shot if they have failed at quitting cigarettes ...

Going against the flow is always a challenge, but some waterfall-climbing fish have adapted to their extreme lifestyle by using the same set of muscles for both climbing and eating, according to research published January 4 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Richard Blob and colleagues from Clemson University. The Nopili rock-climbing goby is known to inch its way up waterfalls as tall as 100 meters by using a combination of two suckers; one of these is an oral sucker also used for feeding on algae. In this study, the researchers filmed jaw muscle movement in these ...

A person's style of speech — not just the pitch of his or her voice — may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a University of Colorado Boulder researcher who studied transgender people transitioning from female to male. The way people pronounce their "s" sounds and the amount of resonance they use when speaking contributes to the perception of gender, according to Lal Zimman, whose findings are based on research he completed while earning his doctoral degree from CU-Boulder's linguistics department. Zimman, who ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– While legions of medical researchers have been looking to understand the genetic basis of disease and how mutations may affect human health, a group of biomedical researchers at UC Santa Barbara is studying the metabolism of cells and their surrounding tissue, to ferret out ways in which certain diseases begin. This approach, which includes computer modeling, can be applied to Type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases, among others. Scientists at UCSB have published groundbreaking results of a study of Type 2 diabetes ...

The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing how the major types of prostate cancer treatments stack up to each other in terms of saving lives and cost effectiveness is reported this week by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Appearing in the British Journal of Urology International, the work analyzed 232 papers published in the last decade that report results from clinical studies following patients with low-, intermediate- and high-risk forms of prostate cancer who were treated with one or more of the ...

LA JOLLA, Calif., January 4, 2013 – In many cases, obesity is caused by more than just overeating and a lack of exercise. Something in the body goes haywire, causing it to store more fat and burn less energy. But what is it? Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have a new theory—a protein called p62. According to a study the team published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, when p62 is missing in fat tissue, the body's metabolic balance shifts—inhibiting "good" brown fat, while favoring "bad" white fat. These findings indicate that p62 might ...

CYBER SECURITY -- Thwarting threats . . . Many of the nation's foremost authorities on cyber security will gather in Oak Ridge Jan. 8-12 for the inaugural Cyber Sciences Laboratory workshop. The event will feature 10 plenary keynotes, including Richard Clarke, author of "CYBER WAR: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About it." Also on the agenda are four plenary panels, 44 research talks and 20 research posters. Researchers from nine Department of Energy laboratories will focus on emerging strategies for cost-effective deterrents to cyber attacks. "The ...

What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It's part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere. The new approach combines several remote-sensing tools to study the Arctic landscape—above and below ground—in high resolution and over large spatial scales. It was developed by a group of researchers that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of ...

Cyclone Dumile is on a solo journey in a southeasterly direction over the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean over the weekend of Jan. 5 and 6. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning visible image of Dumile as it left La Reunion and Mauritius behind. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning visible image of Tropical Cyclone Dumile on Jan. 4, 2013 at 1020 UTC (5:20 a.m. EST) as it moved away from La Reunion Island and Mauritius. The MODIS image showed a tight swirl of clouds around Dumile's ...

Sonamu has left the Philippines and Palawan behind and NASA satellite imagery showed the storm intensified into a tropical storm while moving through the easternmost South China Sea. At Jan. 4, 2013 at 0535 UTC (12:35 a.m. EST), a visible image of Tropical Storm Sonamu was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) noted that some animated infrared satellite imagery shows central convection persisting over the low level circulation center and some fragmented ...