Leisure Time Vacations, a prominent travel club, is proud to introduce more condominium inventory than ever before. Through these resort vacancies, members receive deals that consistently are half the price. When you save this much money on lodging alone, it opens up vacation budgets dramatically. Say goodbye to the subpar vacations of the past and introduce yourself to the trips of the future. Travel clubs, like Leisure Time Vacations, are able to offer spectacular deals as a result of their close relationships with major resorts in the hospitality industry. These ...

Businesses thrive when they find strategies that allow them to perform at peak levels while also minimizing expenses. Architects, engineers, manufacturers, construction contractors, facility maintenance teams, mapping and GIS professionals require precision printing on blueprint machines and plotters to present their work and coordinate projects. Buying refurbished plotters from Metro-Repro is one way that Dallas area businesses meet both their performance and budgetary objectives. For over two decades, Metro-Repro has provided affordable reconditioned plotters and large ...

In addition to industry ambassador Nicky McShane taking the reigns as Managing Director, Matt Brown has joined as Sales Director to expand the AffiliateTraction advertiser client roster. Matt, who has been working in the digital sphere since 1996, equally has extensive knowledge of the Affiliate sector having worked across all parts of the industry; agency, network, platform technology and consultancy client-side, with an extensive client list including Vodafone, T.M.Lewin, Red Letter Days, Comet and Hotels4U.com. For its Publisher activity, Rebecca Charlton has been appointed ...

Accor Group of Hotels launches Planet 21, a new global sustainable development program that sets new environmental and social targets for the hotel chain, which includes among many other brands, Sofitel. The program is structured around 21 commitments backed by quantifiable objectives that all Accor hotels are expected to meet by 2015. With Planet 21, Accor is making sustainable hospitality the focus of its strategic vision, as well as its development and innovation processes. It's an ambitious aim in which both employees and customers have a role to play. At Sofitel ...

An estimated 40% of adult men and 24% of adult women suffer from habitual snoring, according to a report by the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM). In addition, the AADSM has found that 50% of snorers have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a dangerous, life threatening disorder that affects nearly 20 million Americans. Dr. David J. Stern, located at Dentistry at Oak Ridge at 13291 Yonge Street, Suite 102, Richmond Hill, ON L4E 4L6, can answer your questions about your sleep disorder, sleep disorder symptoms and your sleep deficit. Dr. Stern can provide patients ...

One of the top sellers of employee time clocks, WirelessTimeClock.com (http://www.wirelesstimeclock.com), announced today a new addition to their product line: the MN2000 Facial Recognition Clock from uAttend, competitively priced at just $299.00 with a monthly service plan. Much like other biometric time clocks that WirelessTimeClock.com offers, this new clock contains an added level of security due to the requirement of actual physical interaction. The clock features a highly advanced technological component that allows up to 200 employees the ability to clock in and ...

The $250,000 Slot Slayers competition that began at Jackpot Capital Casino this week pits player against player - and slot and against slot. Every week, for eight weeks, two slots face off. The game that's had the most bets during the week wins the round and $30,000 in prize money will be divided amongst the top 300 players on its Scoreboard. Every Monday, prizes for the previous week will be awarded through Jackpot Capital's unique "My Coupons" facility that conveniently displays all casino bonuses currently available to each individual player. "Achilles ...

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, there were 264 fatal falls in the construction industry in 2010. More than a third of all construction deaths are due to falls, making falls the largest single cause of accidental fatalities among construction workers. However, while falls are a serious threat at a worksite, most of them can be prevented. When employers put into place the proper safety measures, construction workers and their families can be saved from having to suffer through a potentially life changing fall. Safety Equipment, Proper ...

After a divorce, a spouse who is receiving child support, spousal support or other payments relies on their former spouse's earning ability to cover those payments. However, merely having the payments order in divorce decree does not ensure their payment. Should your former spouse die, if you have not made the proper arraignments, you could be left without any of the financial benefits you were promised. Life insurance is typically required for the paying spouse to insure that there is an adequate source of funds to satisfy the expenses. Potential Problems with Life ...

Early in August, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a new "Three Strikes" bill into law. The law amends many criminal sentencing provisions. Most importantly, it removes judicial discretion in sentencing in many cases. Certain past crimes will automatically qualify as a "strike," no matter the fact pattern, and could trigger a mandatory, heavy sentence whether the sentencing judge agrees or not. Three Strikes laws have been enacted by many states to punish repeat criminal offenders. After three separate felony convictions, or "strikes," ...

Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, a member of the global luxury hotel group Jumeirah, officially opened Abu Dhabi's and the hotel's latest gourmet venue: Tori No Su, a sleek Japanese destination of style and taste offering traditional Japanese cuisine along with contemporary creations based on classic elements by Chef Ando. Combining an authentic modern Japanese ambience with superb dining and lively urban interaction, Tori No Su features live Teppanyaki and Robatayaki counters, a Sushi bar, a beverage bar as well general seating areas. A native of Japan, Chef Ando applies ...

Choice Hotels Europe, the company behind the Comfort, Quality and Clarion brands in Europe and part of Choice Hotels International, Inc., one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world, has launched a promotion enabling European members of Choice Privileges, Choice Hotels International's award-winning rewards programme, to earn a free night at over 250 participating hotels in Europe*. After a member completes two separate stays with arrival between 30 August and 14 November 2012, they will receive enough Choice Privileges points to redeem them for a free night ...

Jumeirah Restaurants LLC, the branded restaurant division of Jumeirah Group, has signed two franchise agreements that will see Urbano, its Italian restaurant concept that is at Souk Al Bahar in Dubai, open soon in Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Turkey. Jumeirah Restaurants signed a licensing agreement with a key Food & Beverage market leader in Bahrain to open Urbano restaurants in Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain. The first Urbano in Bahrain will open in Seef District in late 2012. Meanwhile, in Turkey, Jumeirah Restaurants signed with BCF Group to open the Urbano restaurant ...

Boutique Beverly Hills based personal injury law firm, Solace Law, uses the latest technology to stay one step ahead in order to provide cost effective advocacy for injured clients. Soon to be gone are the days of stacks of banker's boxes, red wells and endless filing cabinets. We have all seen it in such legendary legal movies as Erin Brokovich: the truck backs up to the law firm and box after box filled with paper makes its way into the war room. Yes, paper will always play a part in the legal system, but harnessing the latest technology not only saves the environment, ...

Vienna, Austria: Children who are exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were commonly used in a range of industrial products, could be at risk of an increase in asthma symptoms, according to new research. The study will be presented in a poster discussion this week (Sunday 2 September 2012) at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Vienna. PCBs were regularly used between 1930s and 1970s in a range of electrical equipment, lubricants and paint additives. They were eventually phased out due to the harm they were causing to the environment ...

A team of engineers at Stanford has demonstrated the feasibility of a super-small, implantable cardiac device that gets its power not from batteries, but from radio waves transmitted from outside the body. The implanted device is contained in a cube just eight-tenths of a millimeter in radius. It could fit on the head of pin. The findings were published in the journal Applied Physics Letters. In their paper, the researchers demonstrated wireless power transfer to a millimeter-sized device implanted five centimeters inside the chest on the surface of the heart—a depth ...

Obesity rates in North America are a growing concern for legislators. Expanded waistlines mean rising health-care costs for maladies such as diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. One University of Alberta researcher says that if people do not take measures to get healthy, they may find that governments will throw their weight into administrative measures designed to help us trim the fat. Nola Ries of the Faculty of Law's Health Law and Science Policy Group has recently published several articles exploring potential policy measures that could be used to promote healthier ...

Communities attempting to improve their local food system are increasingly creating food policy councils as an important tool in that effort, but little research has been done into how those councils are functioning. A team of Johns Hopkins researchers recently conducted a nationwide survey of food policy councils to try to fill some of this research gap. Their results were published online August 24 by the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. "All over the U.S., food policy councils are bringing together stakeholders to examine how the food ...

Prostate cancer in African-American men is associated with specific changes in the IL-16 gene, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The study, published online in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, establishes the association of IL-16 with prostate cancer in men of both African and European descent. "This provides us with a new potential biomarker for prostate cancer," says principal investigator Rick Kittles, UIC associate professor of medicine in hematology/oncology. Previously identified changes ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Three of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent history occurred where earthquake hazard maps didn't predict massive quakes. A University of Missouri scientist and his colleagues recently studied the reasons for the maps' failure to forecast these quakes. They also explored ways to improve the maps. Developing better hazard maps and alerting people to their limitations could potentially save lives and money in areas such as the New Madrid, Missouri fault zone. "Forecasting earthquakes involves many uncertainties, so we should inform the public ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Science, meat scientists report that a method called blast chilling could affect pork tenderness. Researchers at the USDA-ARS, Roman L. Hruska US Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) recently conducted a study that compares pork longissimus muscle (LM) tenderness and other meat quality traits between different stunning methods and carcass chilling rates at slaughter facilities. The pigs used in this study came from one barn on a commercial finishing operation. Pigs were taken to one of three slaughter facilities. Plant ...

Flying high, or down in the dumps - individuals suffering from bipolar disorder alternate between depressive and manic episodes. Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim have now discovered, based on patient data and animal models, how the NCAN gene results in the manic symptoms of bipolar disorder. The results have been published in the current issue of "The American Journal of Psychiatry." Individuals with bipolar disorder are on an emotional rollercoaster. During depressive phases, they suffer from depression, diminished ...

Men and women who undergo joint replacement procedures, as well as those who have significant fractures, tend to be at an increased risk of developing pulmonary emboli (PE), blood clots that travel to the lungs where they may cause serious complications and even death. Patients are often aggressively treated with anticoagulants, or blood thinners, to help prevent the clots from forming, but a study published in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons indicates that some blood clots being identified by today's sensitive testing ...

No other company has delivered excellent barcoding solutions for the packaging industry in Australia more than Stratix. With the launching of their new and improved web site, http://www.stratix.com.au, Stratix makes it possible for clients to conveniently browse through their products online and learn about their services in just a mouse click. Their website features detailed descriptions of their products and allows customers to easily make an enquiry. With 20 years of experience in the field, Stratix has achieved great milestones to become Australia's EUR s leading ...

CPA Site Solutions releases four new Smart Design styles that automatically optimize websites for CPA and accounting firms when viewed on a variety of devices, including desktop computers, HDTVs, laptop and netbook computers, tablet computers and smartphones--both iOS and Android. Also known as responsive web designs, Smart Designs eliminate the need for multiple website designs for CPA practices because they adapt to the media they are viewed on. When using a smartphone for example, a website using the Smart Design feature adapts to a mobile format with easy to navigate ...