Bentley Prince Street, Inc. has been honored by the industry with Interior Design Magazine's Best of Year Award for its Domestic Alchemy broadloom carpet collection. For the past five years, Interior Design Magazine has used the Best of Year Awards to give architects, facility managers and interior design professionals the opportunity to express their opinions. The votes have been tallied and the design community has spoken - Domestic Alchemy has been named the Best of Year winner in the Broadloom Carpet category for 2010. Also described as the Soft Hard Surface , Domestic ...

The Telecom Expense Management Industry Association (TEMIA) (http://www.temia.org), the authoritative voice for the Telecom Expense Management (TEM) industry, announced that it is offering a webcasts for enterprises, government, and other organizations interested in learning about TEM best practices. These webcasts will feature different members of the association speaking on a range of topics which shall include information for organizations that are seeking to learn about telecom expense management solutions. Some of the material will include best practices for a successful ...

A new study released last week by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) indicates that mismatches in bumper height between passenger cars and SUVs may be amplifying the costs of repairs following an accident. This is important for consumers, since getting into an expensive accident can result not only in high short-term repair costs but also in greater difficulty when trying to track down cheap auto insurance rates. In the IIHS study, seven pairs of cars -- each comprising one passenger car and one SUV -- were involved in a total of 14 crashes. For each ...

LeatherBedFrames.org.uk is proud to introduce their new collection of leather bed frames, 10 new exclusive beds have been added to an already extensive collection of over 100 faux and genuine leather beds. Located in Fife, they have over 40 years of experience of manufacturing and retailing beds, their website was launched at the start of 2010. Leather beds are ideal for the contemporary home and with the rise of modern design it is no surprise that leather beds are becoming a popular choice amongst consumers. LeatherBedFrames.org.uk has a wide selection of leather beds ...

Now is your chance to sign up! Don't miss out! -Online Retirement Elective Course 8 weeks When: December 8 - January 26 2011 Registration Fee: $397 for Students/ $375 for Subscribers Description: The TechniTrader online Retirement Course is designed to help those students who are managing their 401K, IRA or other retirement accounts. This elective course is based on the Vertical Rotational Diversification Method created by Martha Stokes C.M.T. which is a totally new approach to long term investing. The Retirement Course goes into great depth about how ...

Just4Boats is the premiere virtual retailer for all your boating supplies needs. With the most robust catalog of innovative boating and crossover products, our customers are able to find just what they are looking for to have a safe, fun, and successful boating experience with their family, friends, or crew. We have built our inventory to put special focus on boat safety products, marine communication equipment, marine plumbing, and marine electrical equipment. We also specialize in navigation equipment and instruments. Although we offer a full line of boating supplies, ...

Beginning in 2010, Google Maps has offered routes specifically for bikes. Now, cyclists can use their computers to plot the best route from point A to point B, including the topography and traffic conditions. Starting with major cities, such as New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Portland, but continuing to 150 cities nationwide, Google Maps will be a great resource for cyclists. Cycling advocates, many of whom had been petitioning Google for years to add this feature, were ecstatic. As reported by Mary Catherine O'Connor at http://www.wired.com, Andy Clarke, ...

At the end of November, 2010 the New York City Department of Transportation officially released a written proposal asking private companies to submit bids to establish a year-round bike share system that would offer 10,000 bicycles at about 600 stations throughout Manhattan. This proposal seeks to establish the most ambitious program in North America, and would be comparable in density to world-class systems already in place in other countries. Bids are due by February 16, 2011. The project is expected to be implemented in the spring of 2012. The Request for Proposal ...

As the world continues to struggle with voracious energy demands, traffic congestion, and global warming, many communities are looking to promote bicycle use among young people as an alternative to cars. Whether it be the bike traffic schools in Santa Cruz, California or the expansion of community biking throughout the Czech Republic, people all over the world are looking for ways to encourage cycling. Prior to the launch of the Bike it program in North Wales in 2009, only 13 % of children were biking to school once a week. After the program was implemented, 39% of ...

All size companies can now afford to implement recovery at all locations in one purchase, and at a low special purchase price. Think about the facilities and locations in your company that need a recovery plan in place to respond to emergencies of all types. Now, think beyond the data center. What should you include? The typical locations that need a plan include: Computer centers, critical business units, customer service centers, call centers, remote server locations, plant locations, sales offices, ecommerce websites, and more. Be careful; in Disaster Recovery ...

Plackers, makers of the first disposable dental flosser, expands its line of family-friendly oral care products with Brush & Learn by Plackers Kids, a series of unique musical toothbrushes for children. Utilizing original melodies and upbeat, catchy lyrics, each toothbrush plays an entertaining, educational song that encourages healthy dental care habits by making brushing fun for children. Parents can choose from four Brush & Learn toothbrushes with songs that help teach children their ABCs, 123s, farm animal sounds, and proper teeth brushing techniques. Tooth decay ...

Purdue's goals will be to specialize in the research, development and use of virtual simulations for educational, training and business applications. Powersynch, LLC, the parent company for SpotON3D began development of their grid systems in November of 2008. With the help of a team of dedicated programmers, web developers, modelers and grid experts, they have succeeded in creating an exciting new experience that includes answers to many of the complex problems seen with their contemporaries. With a ten-year vision for the development of the 3D Web, SpotON3D's secure ...

CiCi's Pizza, home of the $4.99 endless pizza, pasta, salad and dessert buffet, announces today the addition of Deb Chappell as Director of Real Estate Services and Support. A 25-year veteran, Chappell led expansion efforts for big names like Chili's Grill & Bar, Romano's Macaroni Grill and BJ's Restaurants. At CiCi's Pizza, Chappell is tasked with building on CiCi's diversity in franchising and continued growth. The Texas-based company plans to add 500 units in the next eight to 10 years and is actively recruiting franchise partners. Chappell brings decades of experience ...

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. announces that it has reached an agreement to sell the assets of its environmental laboratory division to Accutest Laboratories, marking a new phase for the sixty-six year old company that was founded in the petroleum industry. SPL has long been a leader in the petroleum and environmental testing industry, with its largest laboratory facilities in Traverse City, Michigan, Lafayette, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. But in light of the economic downturn, SPL had been evaluating its objectives and the company's future direction. "It ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function. That is the conclusion of a new study published online on Dec. 5 by the journal Nature Neuroscience. The experiment provides the first evidence for seasonal imprinting of biological clocks in mammals and was conducted by Professor of Biological Sciences Douglas McMahon, graduate student Chris Ciarleglio, post-doctoral fellow Karen Gamble and two undergraduate students at Vanderbilt University. The imprinting effect, which was found ...

VIDEO: Saumil Gandhi, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, discusses his new research which finds that, contrary to what researchers have assumed, genes that work with other genes... Click here for more information. December 5, 2010 ─ (BRONX, NY) ─ Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have made an unexpected finding about the method by which certain genes are activated. Contrary to what researchers ...

Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain. We are all familiar with the idea that our thoughts and emotions differ from one person to another, but most people assume that how we perceive the visual world is usually very similar from person to person. However, the primary visual cortex – the area at the back of the brain responsible for processing what we see in the world around us – is known to differ in size by up to three times from one individual to the next. Now, ...

Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study to be published in Nature Geosciences this week. This is the first study to reveal that fires in the Alaskan interior - an area spanning 18.5 million hectares - have become more severe in the past 10 years, and have released much more carbon into the atmosphere than was stored by the region's forests over the same period. "When most people think of wildfires, they think about trees burning, but most of what fuels ...

For years, geologists have argued about the processes that formed steep inner gorges in the broad glacial valleys of the Swiss Alps. The U-shaped valleys were created by slow-moving glaciers that behaved something like road graders, eroding the bedrock over hundreds or thousands of years. When the glaciers receded, rivers carved V-shaped notches, or inner gorges, into the floors of the glacial valleys. But scientists disagreed about whether those notches were erased by subsequent glaciers and then formed all over again as the second round of glaciers receded. New ...

Damage caused by multiple sclerosis could be reversed by activating stem cells that can repair injury in the central nervous system, a study has shown. Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh have identified a mechanism essential for regenerating insulating layers – known as myelin sheaths – that protect nerve fibres in the brain. In additional studies in rodents, they showed how this mechanism can be exploited to make the brain's own stem cells better able to regenerate new myelin. In multiple sclerosis, loss of myelin leads to the nerve fibres ...

Sugar molecules coat every cell in our bodies and play critical roles in development and disease, yet the components of these "glycans" have been difficult for scientists to study, because of their complexity. Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have adapted gene chip microarray technology to the study of glycans, with an approach they call "shotgun glycomics." The Emory team has developed a new chemical method for attaching a fluorescent dye to glycans purified from cells. The individual glycans are separated into tiny spots fixed to glass slides. The ...

On November 19, Jason Martin returned to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the first time since he nearly died there during last year's H1N1 flu pandemic. The tall and burly Warren County, TN, ambulance worker – a 30-year-old, father of three young children – broke down and hugged some of the nurses he recognized. "I got sick on September 12 and didn't come out of it for the next 20 days. I am just so grateful I came through," Martin said, wiping his eyes. Martin was among the first wave of critically ill middle Tennesseans, ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 6, 2010 – Four years after the LouseBuster prototype made headlines when research showed the chemical-free, warm-air device wiped out head lice on children, a new study reveals that a revamped, government-cleared model is highly effective. "For a louse, it's like sticking your head out a window at 100 miles an hour; they're going to get dried out," says University of Utah biology Professor Dale Clayton, senior author of the study and a founder of Larada Sciences, a university spinoff company that sells or leases the LouseBuster to schools, ...

For the first time, researchers have established a clear link between accepting family attitudes and behaviors towards their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children and significantly decreased risk and better overall health in adulthood. The study shows that specific parental and caregiver behaviors -- such as advocating for their children when they are mistreated because of their LGBT identity or supporting their gender expression -- protect against depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in early adulthood. In addition, LGBT ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is excluding significant research findings about human threats to protected species, researchers argue, even when the law governing the agency's actions requires the use of all relevant data in determining whether species need protection from extinction. A group of scientists, led by Jeremy Bruskotter of Ohio State University, argue in the December issue of the journal BioScience that research about societal values should be considered along with biological and ecological data in listing decisions. The Endangered Species ...