Craftmark Solid Surfaces, an Atlanta based quartz and granite countertops supplier, explains how to clean and properly maintain the look of quartz countertops. Quartz countertops are naturally beautiful and durable, but this strong material is not resistant to all stains, scratches and chemicals. The quartz and granite countertops specialists at Craftmark can tell you: be careful what you wipe your countertops down with! Quartz countertops have become quite popular, second only to their granite counterpart, and because of this surge in popularity, homeowners now must ...

Kitchen supply store Kitchen Inspire would like to recommend the use of Japanese knives for all of your food preparation needs. To prepare food well, you need a high quality set of sharp, strong knives. Not only will this allow you to cook beautiful meals more efficiently, but accidents will be less likely to occur because of a lessened need to apply strong pressure. Japanese restaurant equipment in general has a well-deserved reputation for being the very best, but when it comes to knives this is particularly true. They tend to be forged from high quality steel, ...

4t Networks would like to encourage businesses in Florida to be prepared for hurricane season with a good disaster recovery and backup plan. Those living in Florida already know just how devastating a hurricane can be to a business physically. Unfortunately, these natural disasters can be just as dangerous for the disasters they can cause to your data. In fact, a catastrophe such as this can be so destructive that a whopping 90 percent of companies hit by disasters who are not protected with a disaster recovery plan have had to file a bankruptcy claim within three years ...

Attorneys Clark & Washington saw fewer households filing for Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in July than in June, but there were still more than 2,800 filings in the Atlanta/Gainesville area. Their concern is that the decrease in filings does not reflect a decrease in need. Many people considering contacting an Atlanta bankruptcy law firm like Clark & Washington may be concerned that the decision is not the right one. To help people make that determination, Clark & Washington offers a free initial consultation. With the advice of Atlanta bankruptcy ...

Atlanta plumbing company Plumb Xpress Plumbing and Drain would like to inform customers in Woodstock that they are now offering emergency plumbing in Woodstock. These emergency services can get you connected with the help you need at literally any time. This means 24 hours a day, 7 days a week service, including holidays. When you call in an emergency to Plumb Xpress Plumbing and Drain you can expect a qualified technician to show up at your door in 90 minutes or less. The speed does not stop here, either. Most routine jobs will be finished up that same day, often ...

BlueBird Strategies, an advanced lead generation firm that helps businesses quickly achieve ROI from their marketing automation platforms, today announced its sponsorship of the Ventana Research Business Technology Innovation Summit at the Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif. on November 8, 2012. The event marks Ventana Research's 10th anniversary and will feature key insights from Ventana Research analysts on the direction of the technology industry, and the impact of technology innovations for business and IT. The summit sessions will address cloud computing, big data, ...

Prairie Games is proud to announce the world's most original live in-game Halloween Event for their award-winning fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game Minions of Mirth: Undead Wars. This one-night-only event is available free to all within the critically rated number one cult hit game Minions of Mirth 4:00 pm PST this Wednesday, October 31th. Everyone knows Halloween is the most beloved holiday for game designers, a day when they get to give tricks instead of treats to all their friends and fans alike. But this year the industry pioneers at Prairie ...

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Polaris Financial Technology Ltd, a leading global Financial Technology Company, today announced the launch of its FATCA and Global KYC Ready IntellectTM Customer Onboarding Hub (ICOH) solution at SIBOS 2012 in Osaka, Japan. ICOH is a single, comprehensive solution for managing seamless client onboarding lifecycle, cross-channel account opening and 360 degree view of customers for all banking lines of business, product groups and customer segments. As a state-of-the art solution that packages holistic KYC and Anti Money Laundering for rule driven customer onboarding, ...

Are you the sort of person who doesn't like to wait around for things? Well then you will enjoy the Early Bird promotion at Sky Poker. Simply start a new table and continue playing when there are three or fewer people dealt into the hand to earn additional Poker Points! Players who are sat on a short-handed six-max table will now earn an additional 50% on their Poker Points, leading to a larger cash for points payout for the month. The boosted points will update in real time on the Sky Poker homepage, meaning that you can really enjoy watching your Poker Points rack ...

Movie rental kiosks are filling the vacuum left behind by the closure of Blockbuster and other video stores in Lethbridge, Alberta. The U.S. corporate giant Redbox is riding the wave of its tremendous U.S. success north into Canada. It has said it plans to launch as many as 2,500 kiosks in Canada by the end of 2013 and recently announced new partnerships with Shoppers Drug Mark and Loblaw Companies, which owns the Wholesale Club and Real Canadian Superstore in Lethbridge. And then there's Coaldale resident Kirk Allison with his independent company called U Do It ...

The National Fix and Flip Network is pleased to announce that house flipping, after many years of dormancy, has returned. Not only are profits increasing for house flippers, but interest is also on the rise. According to statistics from the largest search engine, the number of search queries for "house flipping" has nearly doubled in the past year. And in the first half of 2012, there were 25 percent more flips than the same period a year earlier. With interest on the rise, the National Fix and Flip Network has experienced a surge in website traffic and ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A group of researchers in Israel, the United States and other nations have made important advances in the rapidly-expanding field of "regenerative medicine," outlining for the first time connections in genetic regulation that normally prevent birth defects in heart and facial muscles. Some of these problems are surprisingly common – about 1 percent of all people have a congenital heart defect. This basic research will provide a road map to ultimately allow scientists to grow the cell types needed to repair such defects, from stem cells that can be generated ...

Nearly a quarter of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis used complementary and alternative therapy (CAT) to help manage their condition, according to a study in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Researchers interviewed 250 patients aged between 20 and 90 years of age. More than two-thirds (67%) had rheumatoid arthritis and the remainder had osteoarthritis. They found that 23% used CAT in addition to prescribed drugs and that just under two-thirds of those (64%) felt that the therapy was beneficial, reporting improvements in pain ...

Biologists from the University of Bonn have discovered that the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus can see in the near infrared range; this was thought to be unlikely until now. Seeing in the infrared range is apparently helping fish to hunt in shallow African rivers. The results will be published in the journal "Naturwissenschaften" and are already available online now. A research team in the work group of Prof. Dr. T. C. M. Bakker at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn, has been studying the biology of the African cichlid fish ...

Introducing abstinence education into UK schools could be a less effective substitute for comprehensive Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) aimed at children and young adults, say a research team led by Sheffield Hallam University. As part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science 2012, Sheffield Hallam and partners will host a one day event to debate the issues surrounding abstinence education. Dr Julia Hirst, from the Public Health Hub at Sheffield Hallam, says "We hope to bring together politicians, teachers, youth workers, young ...

Toronto, October 29, 2012 – The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) is setting the stage in what could become a revolution in medical imaging in Canada as it announces striking results in radiation reduction for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. The announcement comes as UOHI is currently showcasing its expertise at the 2012 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Toronto. As a result of an initiative that combines optimizing test protocols, state-of-the art equipment, and high-tech software, two-thirds of the Ottawa Heart Institute's Nuclear Cardiology patients ...

Physicists describe how they have synthesized a new material that belongs to the iron-selenide class of superconductors, called LixFe2Se2(NH3)y, in a paper about to be published in EPJ B. The work was carried out by Ernst-Wilhelm Scheidt from the University of Augsburg and colleagues. This material displays promising superconducting transition temperatures of 44 Kelvins (K) at ambient pressure, thus improving upon traditional copper-based high-temperature superconductors. The ultimate goal of scientists developing such materials is to reach superconducting characteristics ...

Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Ciénegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of researchers have now analysed the bacterial communities that have survived in these inhospitable springs since the beginning of life on Earth. "Cuatro Ciénegas is extraordinarily similar to Mars. As well as the Gale crater where Curiosity is currently located on its exploration of the red planet, this landscape is the home to gypsum formed by fire beneath the seabed," as explained to SINC ...

Physicists use hydrodynamics to understand the physical mechanism responsible for changes in the long-range order of groups of particles. Particularly, Aparna Baskaran of Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA, and Cristina Marchetti of Syracuse University, New York, USA, focused on ordered groups of elongated self-propelled particles. They studied the breakdown of long-range order due to fluctuations that render them unstable and give rise to complex structures, in a study about to be published in EPJ E. The authors coined the term self-propelled nematics to refer ...

Researchers from Inserm and CNRS from the Institute for genetics and molecular and cellular biology (IGBMC) and from the Research Institute at the Strasbourg school of biotechnology (Irebs) have focussed their efforts on PARG, currently thought to be a promising new therapeutic target in the treatment of cancer. Their work has revealed the role of this molecule in regulating gene expression. The results were published on 25 October 2012 in the on-line Molecular Cell review. Cells are subjected to various stresses throughout their life. Some of this stress can damage DNA. ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 29, 2012 — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers. Titan, ...

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite can measure rainfall rates and cloud heights in tropical cyclones, and was used to create an image to look into Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28, 2012. Owen Kelly of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. created this image of Hurricane Sandy using TRMM data. At 2:20 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Oct. 28, Hurricane Sandy was a marginal category 1 hurricane and its eyewall is modest, as TRMM reveals, which gives forecasters and scientists hints about its possible future strength. The eyewall appeared somewhat ...

Scientists have discovered a molecular 'tell' in laboratory experiments that could help doctors determine the severity of a patient's prostate cancer. Cancer of the prostate – the most common male cancer in the UK – presents in two distinct ways: a low-risk type, which may never cause any symptoms, and a high-risk form that needs treatment to prevent it spreading to other parts of the body. Knowing which type of prostate cancer each patient has – some 40,000 British men per year – is therefore essential to ensuring they receive the correct treatment. Lead researcher ...

BOSTON, Mass. – Oct. 29, 2012. Elderly women with early-stage breast cancer live longer with radiation therapy and surgery compared with surgery alone, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found. The researchers, who collected data on almost 30,000 women, ages 70 to 84, with early, highly treatable breast cancer enrolled in a nationwide cancer registry, are reporting their findings at the 54th annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). "Overall survival and breast cancer-specific survival were significantly better ...