WSI MarketBuilders, a leading Internet Marketing Consulting firm helping small and medium-sized business in Northern California increase their revenue even in a tough economy, announced record growth in the first half of 2011, including the addition of 17 new clients, as well as ongoing work for another 11 clients and a 206% increase in revenue over the same period in 2010. "Small and medium-sized businesses continue to search for cost-effective ways to reach their target market and increase their revenue in this challenging economy," said Lou Unkeless, Managing ...

The Summer Spectacular kicks off at the Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth on Wednesday July 12th. Running throughout the summer until Sunday September 18th, the event will feature international circus acts, magicians, comedians and many other performers. People enjoying a holiday in Norfolk can purchase a ringside seat at the historic venue for GBP18.50, while a place in the stalls is priced at GBP17.50 or GBP16. Family tickets are also available for the show, which is arranged by circus impresario Peter Jay. Evening performances will get underway at 19:30 BST or ...

An antidote to European political posturing, Eurasia Culture Festival provides visitors to Istanbul with a unique experience this July. International travel professionals easytobook.com are preparing for an increase in hotel room demand throughout the Turkish capital, particularly in the area surrounding Rasimpasa Mahallesi. Eurasia Culture Festival draws together cultures from around the world for a truly international celebration of a range of artistic disciplines. The 11th annual Eurasia Festival will be held from 13th to 18th July 2011 and comprises several evenings ...

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A new production of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me is set to open at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake on Friday August 5th. Written by acclaimed Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness, the play deals with the shared experience of three male hostages being held in the Middle East by unseen captors. It was first staged in London in 1992 and also enjoyed a successful run on Broadway, where the compelling drama received several theatre awards. As the imprisoned trio attempt to maintain their sanity by talking and arguing with each other, they develop a mutual respect that gradually ...

The annual Guiting Festival offers visitors the chance to enjoy live classical music in an idyllic Cotswold setting. Held in the pretty Gloucestershire village of Guiting Power, the event has been a fixture of the local calendar for more than 40 years. The 2011 edition will run from Friday July 22nd to Saturday July 30th, with a diverse collection of musicians due to perform. This year's line-up includes Northumbrian pipes player Kathryn Tickell, the Navarra Quarter string ensemble, pianist Joanna MacGregor and award-winning cellist Alexander Chaushian. MacGregor, ...

Benko Products, Inc announces Sahara Batch Ovens with roll-in carts. Ovens are electrically heated to maintain 350 degrees Fahrenheit, and provide crossflow air circulation to maintain superior temperature uniformity. Offering three roll-in carts, these ovens provide an ideal solution for curing or drying small parts in a broad range of industries, including plastics, chemical, automotive and more. Sahara Batch Ovens are designed for reliable performance and ease of use. Robust steel construction allows years of dependable service--even in harsh environments. The roll-in ...

Can a regional airport become a hub for domestic and international Long Island tourism? That's one of the questions that the HIA-LI Executive Breakfast series will explore as local government and tourism officials discuss "The Airport and Tourism: Two Long Island Economic Generators." Hosted by HIA-LI, the recognized voice for business on Long Island, the discussion will be held at the Veterans Memorial Concourse Entrance of Long Island MacArthur Airport on Thursday, July 14, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM. In a discussion introduced by Airport Commissioner Teresa ...

Environmental StoneWorks and Lakewood-based HomeSphere, Inc. announced today they have entered into a joint agreement to offer stone veneer products to HomeSphere's network of builders in the Rocky Mountain and California Region. Environmental StoneWorks joins more than 75 manufacturing brands currently using HomeSphere's BRI lead generation and marketing program to produce new builder leads and strengthen existing business, thus growing their market share through increased homebuilder sales. "The BRI partnership gives us a supplemental tool to enhance our current ...

Increasingly enterprises are implementing master data management (MDM) solutions to ensure the consistency of information across the organization, enabling better decision-making and more efficient operations. However, adapting master data formats to different data models within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) often poses significant challenges. Some IT architects and developers turn to data duplication as a temporary workaround, but this approach leads to system instability and data inconsistency. A more secure, long-term solution for leveraging existing master data ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — For nearly two decades, the medical world and the American public have grappled with the lightning-rod topic of stem cells, in particular the controversy surrounding cells from human embryos. But when researchers four years ago successfully "reprogrammed" adult body cells to become stem cells, some thought the ethical debate was nearly over. Those redirected cells, known as induced pluripotent cells, or iPS cells, show potential as therapy. "The benefit is they require no destruction of human embryos," says Mayo Clinic hematologist/oncologist C. Christopher ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering will be at the Kennedy Space Center for the last space shuttle launch of the NASA program as Atlantis departs for its final mission into Earth's orbit. With July 8, 2011 as the target launch date, the UNC/NCSU team led by Ted Bateman, PhD, associate professor in the department, have painstakingly prepared an experiment aboard Atlantis aimed at revealing strategies to protect future astronauts from bone loss during ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplanet's atmosphere 1,000 light-years away. "For 21 years Hubble has been the premier space science observatory, astounding us with deeply beautiful imagery and enabling ground-breaking science across a wide spectrum of astronomical disciplines," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. He piloted the space shuttle mission that carried ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) -- A team led by a professor at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has made a discovery in semiconductor nanowire laser technology that could potentially do everything from kill viruses to increase storage capacity of DVDs. Ultraviolet semiconductor diode lasers are widely used in data processing, information storage and biology. Their applications have been limited, however, by size, cost and power. The current generation of ultraviolet lasers is based on a material called gallium nitride, but Jianlin ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - One of the peskiest household pests, while disastrous to homes, could prove to be a boon for cars, according to a Purdue University study. Mike Scharf, the O. Wayne Rollins/Orkin Chair in Molecular Physiology and Urban Entomology, said his laboratory has discovered a cocktail of enzymes from the guts of termites that may be better at getting around the barriers that inhibit fuel production from woody biomass. The Scharf Laboratory found that enzymes in termite guts are instrumental in the insects' ability to break down the wood they eat. The findings, ...

A new study finds high folate intake is associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer, a finding consistent with the findings of most previous epidemiologic studies. The study is reassuring, as previous recent evidence has suggested that consumption of very high levels of folate through supplements and from folate-fortified diet may increase risk of some cancers. Nonetheless, the potential importance of folate in colorectal cancer prevention remains in question because at least one other study found folate supplementation had no effect on recurrence of colorectal ...

VERNON – Access to swine effluent or waste water can help a producer grow more grass. But a Texas AgriLife Researcher says the grass is "greener" economically if it is a cool-season rather than a warm-season variety. Dr. Seong Park, AgriLife Research economist in Vernon, said while the warm-season grasses appear to have a greater growth boost with swine effluent application, the cool-season grasses have marketing advantages that make it a more viable economic option for producers in the Oklahoma Panhandle and Southern Plains. Park recently had the results of his study ...

A big part of coping with life is having a flexible reaction to the ups and downs. Now, a study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people choose to respond differently depending on how intense an emotion is. When confronted with high-intensity negative emotions, they tend to choose to turn their attention away, but with something lower-intensity, they tend to think it over and neutralize the feeling that way. Emotions are useful—for example, fear tells your body to get ...

The question seems simple enough: What happens to the Earth's temperature when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase? The answer is elusive. However, clues are hidden in the fossil record. A new study by researchers from Syracuse and Yale universities provides a much clearer picture of the Earth's temperature approximately 50 million years ago when CO2 concentrations were higher than today. The results may shed light on what to expect in the future if CO2 levels keep rising. The study, which for the first time compared multiple geochemical and temperature proxies ...

Candidates gain votes by taking a "green" position on climate change -- endorsing the existence of warming, human causation, and the need for taking action to address it, according to a new study of U.S. adults. Among citizens who are Democrats and Independents, a hypothetical U.S. Senate candidate gained votes by making a green statement on climate change and lost votes by making a not-green statement, compared to making no statement on climate. Among citizens who are Republicans, the candidate's vote share was unaffected by taking a green position or a not-green position, ...

WASHINGTON, July 5 – Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been changing the way we see the world since the 1960s. Their usage in everyday life is pervasive and continues to increase thanks to the cutting-edge research being done in the field of optics. To highlight breakthroughs in LEDs, the editors of Energy Express, a bi-monthly supplement to Optics Express, the open-access journal of the Optical Society (OSA), today published a special Focus Issue on Optics in LEDs for Lighting. The issue is organized and edited by Guest Editors Jae-Hyun Ryou and Russell Dupuis of the Georgia ...

Using ovarian surface epithelial cells from mice, researchers from Virginia Tech have released findings from a study that they believe will help in cancer risk assessment, cancer diagnosis, and treatment efficiency in a technical journal: Nanomedicine http://www.nanomedjournal.com/article/S1549-9634%2811%2900184-5/abstract By studying the viscoelastic properties of the ovarian cells of mice, they were able to identify differences between early stages of ovarian cancer and more advanced and aggressive phenotypes. Their studies showed a mouse's ovarian cells are stiffer ...

After an 88-year-long hiatus North America's tallest bird, the statuesque whooping crane (Grus americana), is once again on exhibit at the Bird House at the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park. An 11-year-old male whooping crane named Rocky left Homosassa Springs State Park in Florida and is now on exhibit in the nation's capital. Whooping cranes are one of only two crane species native to the United States. There are only eight other zoos in the U.S. which exhibit these birds. "It is an honor for the National Zoo to once again exhibit this magnificent species," said ...

BOSTON -- Eating a diet high in vitamin D, as well as the nutrients betaine and methionine, might help reduce the risk of macular degeneration, according to new research conducted by Tufts Medical Center scientists. Their study of identical twins from the US World War II Twin Registry also found that the more a person smoked, the higher their risk of developing macular degeneration. The study, "Smoking, Dietary Betaine, Methionine, and Vitamin D in Monozygotic Twins with Discordant Macular Degeneration: Epigenetic Implications" published in the journal Ophthalmology on ...