Holiday Inn Express Simpsonville Hotel offers convenient lodging to guests attending the Steve Kaufman and Gary "Biscuit" Davis workshops. Open to all playing levels, Kaufman is offering a flat picking workshop and Davis is teaching a banjo workshop; both men are 3 time national champions in their discipline. Taking place at Simpsonville Arts Center on Saturday, March 2, 2013, the workshops are scheduled from 1-4pm and a concert will be held at 8:00pm. For reservations and ticket information, visit www.safiarts.org. "We are pleased to welcome anyone attending ...

Hampton Inn Spartanburg SC Hotel (North I-85) offers nearby lodging to athletics competing in the 2013 Race to the Top. This competition run offers a 7.5 and 10 mile course at Table Rock State Park and Pinnacle Mountain, one of the highest points along South Carolina's Blue Ridge Escarpment. The race will take place at 9:00am on Saturday, March 2. For registration and other event details, visit www.runnersworld.com/race/1937753. "Conveniently located off I-85 at exit 78, our Spartanburg hotel is the perfect place for race participants traveling on I-85 to stay," ...

Hotel Evolution, an Atlanta, GA based hotel management company and development group, is honored to have their property, Hampton Inn & Suites Scottsboro, named the #1 Hampton Inn & Suites in the state of Alabama and winner of Hampton Hotels' 2012 Lighthouse Award. Distinguished as a top accolade in Hilton Worldwide's Hampton Hotels system, the Lighthouse Award goes to the top 5% of all Hampton Inn and Hampton Inn & Suites properties in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Columbia. Measured by the hotels' 2012 Total Quality Scores ...

While the members of TLC certainly were making a lot of money, they still ended up filing for bankruptcy in 1995. This real-life example of celebrities in the spotlight having to file for bankruptcy is something at which everyday people should take a look. The Chattanooga bankruptcy lawyers from Clark & Washington want others to learn from TLC's situation. Why TLC Filed for Bankruptcy Although a successful group, the members of TLC had debts that reached more than $3.5 million dollars as a result of lawsuits, insurance and paying their managers. Their take-home ...

Atlanta movers A.C. White, a fourth generation, family-owned company, wants to help prevent consumers from falling prey to moving scams where the ultimate fee charged is much higher than the original estimate. They encourage people to get more information on the website MovingScam.com (http://www.movingscam.com), which provides advice to consumers about ways to spot and avoid these scams before hiring an Atlanta moving company. MovingScam.com was started by Tim Walker after his own moving nightmare more than a decade ago, when a bid of just under $1,900 turned into a $5,000+ ...

Bit Refinery today announced that it has joined the Zerto Cloud Disaster Recovery Ecosystem (ZCE) to offer clients cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) services powered by Zerto's award-winning hypervisor-based solution, Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR). As a member of the ecosystem, Bit Refinery is able to provide unparalleled, real-time cloud DR services, enabling businesses of all sizes to cost-effectively protect production applications both to the cloud and in the cloud. "Companies are increasingly interested in leveraging the cloud for data protection, but cloud-based ...

Hailed as one of Iceland's greatest exports, Sigur Ros, the four-piece band from Reykjavik, have returned from their brief hiatus to announce a triple night stint at London's Brixton Academy. The news has excited the music and entertainment scene as the band plans to play tracks from their latest album, Valtari, as well as their greatest hits catalogue. For three nights only - 7, 8, 9 March 2013 - Sigur Ros' return to the stage also marks their return to the music world. Join the band in the Brixton Academy, part of their European Tour, for what promises to be a wonderfully ...

Renowned for their riotous live performances and catchy anthems, Kaiser Chiefs will appease an Angry Mob from the stage of one of London's most popular live venues as they bid to tie up their UK tour with a bang. Ricky Wilson's Leeds indie rockers - featuring new drummer Vijay Mistry - will perform tracks from the band's last album, 'The Future is Medieval', as well as a medley of Kaiser Chiefs greatest hits to a sell-out crowd at the O2 Academy Brixton on Friday 1st March 2013. Best known for their award-winning debut album 'Employment' and the pulsating number one ...

Intended for use as both a conspicuity light and a driving/riding light, Darla utilizes (3) high power LEDs, an advanced digital PWM power supply and a microprocessor-controlled digital dimmer. Constructed here in the USA from die-cast aluminum and precision machined parts, these lights promise very long life and durability. LEDs can offer long life only if they are designed correctly. Proprietary digital thermal feedback circuits monitor LED temperature and regulate pulsed power to extend life to nearly 50,000 hours. Safe operating temperatures are realized in all conditions. ...

One bothersome aspect of winter weather is dry, itchy skin. According to the US National Library of Medicine, dry itchy skin occurs more often in winter, when cold air outside and heated air inside cause low humidity. The skin loses its moisture, may crack and peel or become irritated and inflamed, causing millions of Americans to suffer from dry skin conditions. Ordinary moisturizers try to make up for the moisture that our bodies lose by adding an external moisture source and coating the skin with creams, but this is not as effective as what consumers need. In fact, ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. In an effort to provide guidance to the 12 million Americans who have COPD and the 12 million more whose symptoms remain undiagnosed, Men's Health Network (MHN) partnered with the Association of Black Cardiologists, the Veterans Health Council, and Men's Health Alliance to develop a new guide, "Breathe Easy: Your Lungs and COPD. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease," which can be downloaded and distributed freely in communities across the country. "Studies show ...

Fashion giant Burton has announced the winner of its recent 'Win the Look' Facebook competition. The lucky winner, Matthew Basnett from Stoke on Trent, will receive a GBP250 gift card which can be used to buy any Burton products. After finding out he had won the competition, Matthew said: "I can't wait to get spending. I'll be able to give my wardrobe a much needed update." Burton, who are famous for their men's suits and innovative high street trends, ran their 'Win the Look' competition to mark the launch of their 2013 Spring and Summer collection. ...

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide and a member of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, has announced the Park Inn by Radisson Troyitska, Kyiv in Ukraine. The property will be located in the very centre of Kiev adjacent to the Olympic Stadium and feature 199 rooms. It is in advanced stages of development and scheduled to welcome the first guests in Q3 2013. "We are delighted to introduce our dynamic mid market brand Park Inn by Radisson to Kiev where we already operate two upper upscale Radisson Blu hotels," commented ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, announced today an agreement to provide hospitalist management services to Sentara Obici Hospital's hospitalist program. Sound Physicians will provide hospitalist management services to Sentara Medical Group at the 168-bed facility in Suffolk, Va. later this year. The hospital, medical staff and hospitalist team will benefit from the tools, processes and technology Sound Physicians has created to develop ...

After years of successful cooperation between two entities, CS Network Solutions Limited signed a strategic partnership with GALEB GROUP, one of the entrepreneurship leaders in Central Europe established in 1977. GALEB provide design, installation and maintenance services in the field of telecommunications and information technology on a "turnkey" system. Thanks to its references and experienced designers, GALEB GTE has licenses for construction and development of technical documentation for the international telecommunication facilities. Confirmation of the ...

EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, today announced that 4G is available in nine new towns and cities across the UK, bringing the total number of towns and cities covered by superfast 4GEE mobile technology to 37, just four months after the launch of the service. Today, 4G is being switched on in Barnsley, Chorley, Coventry, Newport, Preston, Rotherham, Telford, Walsall and Watford as roll out continues to progress ahead of schedule. 4G from EE, the first and only 4G network in the UK, covers the homes and businesses of more than 45% of the UK ...

PaySimple, the cloud-based platform for managing and growing small businesses, announced today the launch of the Starter Program, a new lower-cost pricing tier specifically designed for newly established small businesses eager to implement a streamlined automated solution for managing their operations. For a limited time only, small service-based businesses can enjoy the broad benefits of the PaySimple solution for only $14.95 per month plus transaction fees. The company launched the promotional Starter program in response to vocal demand from newer business owners ...

Same-sex couples who live together have worse health than married opposite-sex couples and similar health as opposite-sex couples who are living together (after adjusting for socioeconomic differences), according to a new study from researchers at Rice University. "Families, Resources and Adult Health: Where Do Sexual Minorities Fit?" is one of the first studies comparing the health of married couples, cohabitating opposite-sex couples and cohabiting same-sex couples. The study appears in the March 2013 Journal of Health and Social Behavior. "Previous studies have ...

ATLANTA – The March 2013 issue of The Journal of Urology, the official journal of The American Urological Association, includes a study conducted by four physicians from Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia (RCOG), a Vantage Oncology affiliate. This study, 25 Year Disease Free Survival Rate after Irradiation of Prostate Cancer Calculated with the Prostate Specific Antigen Definition of Recurrence Used for Radical Prostatectomy, is the first-ever to analyze 25 years of follow-up data after radiation therapy treatment for prostate cancer patients. Frank Critz, M.D., founder ...

While water bottles may tout BPA-free labels and personal care products declare phthalates not among their ingredients, these assurances may not be enough. According to a study published February 27 in the Nature Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, people may be exposed to these chemicals in their diets, even if their meals are organic and foods are prepared, cooked and stored in non-plastic containers. And children may be most vulnerable. "Current information we give families may not be enough to reduce exposures," said Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana, ...

A look at how the brain processes information finds a distinct pattern in children with autism spectrum disorders. Using EEGs to track the brain's electrical cross-talk, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital have found a structural difference in brain connections. Compared with neurotypical children, those with autism have multiple redundant connections between neighboring brain areas at the expense of long-distance links. The study, using a "network analysis" like that used to study airlines or electrical grids, may help in understanding some classic behaviors ...

A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed a technique for creating high-density ceramic materials that requires far lower temperatures than current techniques – and takes less than a second, as opposed to hours. Ceramics are used in a wide variety of technologies, including body armor, fuel cells, spark plugs, nuclear rods and superconductors. At issue is a process known as "sintering," which is when ceramic powders (such as zirconia) are compressed into a desired shape and exposed to high heat until the powder particles are bound together into a ...

(27 February 2013) Although considerable progress has been made in determining the impact of the gut microbiota on the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, the detailed study and understanding of the composition and effects of this intestinal community still faces numerous methodological and empirical challenges. "Improvement of study design and sample collection, as well as a more precise understanding of the various genetic and environmental influences, are asked for," says Professor Dirk Haller (Technical University ...

Two new species of the gorgonian inhabiting barnacles — Conopea saotomensis and Conopea fidelis — have been collected from the area surrounding the historically isolated volcanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. The barnacles of this genus are widely spread across the temperate and tropical oceans, but what makes them special is that they occur exclusively in a symbiotic relationship with a gorgonian or black coral hosts. Observations suggest that the barnacles might have a unique ability to recognize and choose a specific host of their preference. The study was published ...

Washington, DC, February 27, 2013 -- Patients who tested positive for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) took an average of 387 days following hospital discharge to be clear of the organism, according to a new study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The study was conducted in the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, a 700-bed university-affiliated general hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. The research team analyzed follow-up ...