Barclaycard and Barclays have revealed the growing popularity of contactless payment technology in the UK, with the total number of transactions this year now reaching over one million. Since January there has been a 217% rise in monthly contactless transactions, with over 150,000 processed in September alone. With 42,500 payment terminals in shops across the UK, there are now more opportunities than ever for the ten million Barclays and Barclaycard customers with contactless cards to make purchases under GBP15 more quickly and easily. Whilst contactless transactions ...

Craftmark Solid Surfaces, Inc., added two Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machines to its Atlanta countertops manufacturing center. The CNC machine has allowed Craftmark Solid Surfaces to increase and improve their production of high quality Atlanta granite countertops, quartz countertops, and solid surface countertops. A CNC machine is controlled by a computer and programmed using CAD or CAM software. The CNC machine cuts along the mathematically defined coordinates set in the computer program with perfect precision and accuracy, allowing it to produce smooth, straight ...

Atlanta shredding company Shred-Green will be participating in a Suwanee Community Charity & Recycling Event on Saturday, November 13th. This fun, free event is being held in honor of America Recycles Day, and will feature a variety of family-friendly activities. Multiple companies and organizations are collaborating to make this recycling event a success for the entire community. Cartridge World will be refilling ink cartridges and making a donation to the North Gwinnett Co-op. Shades of Green Recycling will collect recyclables such as plastic, aluminum cans, electronics, ...

npower has reported that one of the UK's largest installations of photo-voltaic (PV) cells on a historic building* has been fitted to the roof of the National Trust's carriage museum at Arlington Court near Barnstaple in Devon. The 113 m2 installation will generate up to 6.3 megawatt hours (mWh) of energy each year, saving the museum about GBP600 from its electricity bill and generating income of around GBP2,270 per year by feeding energy back into the grid.** The project has been funded by sales of National Trust Green Energy which is supplied by the charity's ...

M&S Money has revealed new research that shows that many UK parents admit they are still worried about whether the next generation will be able to manage their own money, despite the credit crunch and the focus on finances in the current climate. The research* shows that a quarter of mums and dads around the country say that despite the more cautious financial environment the country is now in, it will still be easier for their kids to get into debt than it was for them and a third think their children will be less able to manage their money than they are. Almost ...

Warner Leisure Hotels has announced it will be offering a series of Strictly Come Dancing Experience Breaks. The breaks will feature some of the most popular Strictly Professional Dancing Stars and judges from the TV show and they have been arranged in exclusive collaboration with BBC Worldwide. The Strictly Professional Dancing Stars appearing at the breaks are Anne Widdecombe's partner Anton Du Beke with his professional partner Erin Boag; Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace, James and Ola Jordan as well as Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopolova, Ian Waite and Camilla Dallerup. ...

Heart Gallery NYC, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of New York City's foster children who qualify for adoption and are in need of finding permanent homes, announced today that HSBC Bank USA, N.A. has committed $25,000 for sponsorship of the project. The Heart Gallery is a unique non-profit that utilizes the donated time of award-winning professional photographers to take portraits that help capture the spirit of children in the foster care system. These photographs are then shared via the web and through gallery exhibits in the hope that ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of accounts payable automation solutions, today announced Rob DeVincent will be speaking at the 2010 PayStream Healthcare Summit. 'Changing the Face of Healthcare through E-invoicing and Cloud AP Automation', will take place on Thursday, November 16th at 10:00 AM EST. DeVincent will also be a featured panelist at 8:30 AM the same day and will discuss the future of accounts payable in the healthcare industry. Rob DeVincent, Vice President of Product Marketing for Corcentric, is the session's featured speaker. He will discuss the following ...

Kipley J. Lytel, CFA, MBA, senior analyst with New York City-based Prime Equity Research has initiated coverage on Force Energy Corp. (OTCBB: FORC) with a 12-month stock target price and analyst's rating, in a report dated November 8, 2010. The full report includes important disclosures, disclaimers and analyst information. Investrend and Prime Equity Research both advise investors to exercise a reasonable degree of due diligence before trading in the equities of any public company, including carefully reading entire analyst reports and report disclosures, and then ...

November sees fashion retailer New Look open their biggest ever store in Dublin's Jervis centre. The store was attended by a host of celebrities and prize winners and was opened by Kimberley Walsh. Kimberley has previously been the face of New Look's spring 2009 collection, and the fashion retailer was keen to invite her back to open the latest store. After a press and VIP store party on the 4th November, Friday the 5th saw a queue of hundreds waiting at 9am to get into the store, pick out the latest clothes and winter coats and try and get their hands on one of the ...

Dreamstar Parties Incorporated, Western Washington's leading children's entertainment company, today announced it has donated over $1450 in proceeds from its Washington signature character service bookings to Children's since September 2009. These donations make up the key part of "Dreamstar Cares," Dreamstar Parties' program/campaign to give back to organizations that promote the well being of young children in the communities Dreamstar Parties serves. For each character performance booked in Washington State, Dreamstar Parties donates $5 to Children's. Dreamstar Parties ...

InnoCodec, www.innocodec.com, the codec division of Innodep Inc. specializing on H.264(H264, AVC, or MPEG-4 part10) software based encoding and decoding technology for SD, HD and full HD resolutions, has been newly established. The new division, InnoCodec, will focus on video surveillance applications where customers need better compression and higher video quality while enabling more channel loading per CPU. Innodep Inc. www.innodep.com announced this separation to focus on its own VMS(Video Management Solution) business. "Multi-channel loading environment such as ...

Burning Red Sun has been selected as one of the top six finalists in the Hendrix Revolution contest, according to Ken Lazorchak, leader and creative force behind this powerhouse New Jersey band. The contest will award one independent band or artist a chance to appear on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album along with world-famous guitarists such as Jeff Beck and Carlos Santana. The album will benefit the Angels On Earth Foundation's Little Wings fund, which supplies musical instruments to children at a time when music education is tragically floundering, both publicly and privately, ...

Transformations Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, a prominent alcohol rehabilitation and addiction treatment center in the Florida area is putting a dent into the 23 million individuals who are suffering from addiction. The facility is fully accredited and provides both inpatient and outpatient care at nearly half the cost of regular treatment centers. Transformations Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center has been serving South Florida now for several years and has evolved into quite an effective drug rehabilitation program that has caught up to new technology. The success ...

In May of 2008, event planner and marketing guru Tara Fontana took her first trip to Tuscany. After eight days of soaking up the art, culture, food, and wine, quite literally the wine, she knew this was a place that she would one day return. In November of 2009 she embarked on her second trip to give birth to a book; but instead she gave birth to a wedding business, Weddings Under The Tuscan Sun. With nearly two decades of success in various areas of the luxury goods industry, Fontana's prestigious resume reads like the pages of Vogue. A former marketing representative ...

Xplore Software Consulting Inc recognizes all-round performance and multiple talents in the areas of both software and the entertainment industry. Ankita Lokhande has been chosen by Xplore Software Consulting Inc as the winner of the Xplore Talent Award from the Indian TV entertainment industry as she possesses immense talent in the areas of acting, dancing, and drama. Ankita Lokhande, born and brought up in Indore, India, is an Indian television actor best known for playing the role of Archana in Pavitra Rishta. She moved to Mumbai, India and began his television ...

Pelican Brands, Calatrasi, and the Mineo Family announced today the formation of a long-term strategic partnership for the U.S. market. The Mineo Family represents the alliance between Calatrasi, a leading Italian wine producer, and 500 individual Sicilian growers. Italian wine is the number one imported wine category in the US. Calatrasi produces nearly one million cases of wine annually and controls more than 1,100 hectares (2,700) acres in Sicily, Puglia and Tunisia. Over the last 10 years, Calatrasi has reinvested over $14 million on improvements to the quality ...

PHILADELPHIA — Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified a possible biomarker for measuring progress in breast cancer chemoprevention trials, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010. Although breast cancer treatments are constantly being tested, the progress in chemoprevention has been slower because of a lack of reasonable outcomes that can be measured, according to lead researcher Victoria Seewaldt, M.D., director of the prevention program at the Duke University ...

PHILADELPHIA — Allopurinol, a relatively inexpensive anti-gout medication that has been on the market for more than 20 years, may have some activity against colorectal adenomas, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010. Specifically, the presence of a colorectal tumor tissue biomarker, Ki67, was markedly decreased in the preliminary results of a study of patients with colorectal polyps assigned to take allopurinol. "Allopurinol has a well-known and good safety profile, and a ...

PHILADELPHIA — The use of statins among a group of postmenopausal women did not reduce the risk for colorectal cancer, according to the results of a prospective analysis of data from the large population-based Women's Health Initiative (WHI). "The results of our study are consistent with the majority of the literature suggesting no significant reduction in colorectal cancer risk among users of statins," said Michael S. Simon, M.D., professor of oncology in the department of oncology at Wayne State University and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit. Simon ...

PHILADELPHIA — Increased phytoestrogens commonly found in dietary soy may modify the risk of some types of breast cancer, according to findings presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Nov. 7-10, 2010. "This study was unique in that we looked at specific subtypes of breast cancer, and found a suggestion that menopausal status may play a role in risk," said Anne Weaver, a graduate student at the University at Buffalo and research apprentice at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Weaver and colleagues evaluated 683 women ...

PHILADELPHIA — Lung tumors in those who smoke and those who never smoked have different DNA alterations in the tumor genomes, according to results of a pilot study presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Nov. 7-10, 2010, in Philadelphia. Based on the results of this study, Kelsie Thu, a Ph.D. candidate at the BC Cancer Research Center in Vancouver, Canada, suggested that "lung cancer in never-smokers should be studied as a separate group," and that lung cancers in smokers and never-smokers may represent two different ...

PHILADELPHIA — Being a current smoker or having a history of smoking significantly increased the risk of breast cancer progression and overall death among a group of multiethnic women with breast cancer, according to the results of a large prospective cohort study. "We found that women who are current smokers or have history of smoking had a 39 percent higher rate of dying from breast cancer, even after we took into account a wide array of known prognostic factors including clinical, socioeconomic and behavioral factors," said Dejana Braithwaite, Ph.D, assistant professor, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Obesity was not associated with breast cancer risk in Mexican-American women, even when measured at numerous ages throughout a woman's lifetime, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010. However, data did show that weight gain during adulthood seemed to reduce breast cancer risk, regardless of menopausal status. "We found that for every 5 kg of weight gain there was a significant 8 percent decrease in the risk for breast cancer," said Krystal Sexton, Ph.D., a ...

The second wave of the pandemic (H1N1) was substantially greater than the first with 4.8 times more hospital admissions, 4.6 times more deaths and 4 times more ICU cases, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj100746.pdf. However, because of the larger number of people hospitalized during the second wave compared to the first, the percentage of people with severe outcomes was smaller. The researchers compared demographic and clinical characteristics as well as outcomes of patients ...