As a subsidiary of HBA member AGCO, Atlanta countertops manufacturer Craftmark Solid Surfaces is a committed member of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association (HBA). As part of the HBA, Craftmark dedicates itself to promoting the homebuilding industry as an economic force. Since 1979, Craftmark Solid Surfaces has supplied quality solid surface Atlanta countertops, quartz countertops, and Atlanta granite countertops, offering a wide selection of colors, styles, and materials. The mission of the Greater Atlanta HBA is to increase profitability, professionalism and ...

Hampton Inn Spartanburg - North I-85, a premier Spartanburg hotel, offers accommodations to guests attending the Candle Supper at Walnut Grove Plantation. The event will take place on Saturday, March 19, 2011 from 6-9pm. Located in Roebuck, SC, about 25 miles from Spartanburg, Walnut Grove Plantation was settled by the Moores family in the 1700s. They were one of the many Scotch-Irish families to settle in the South Carolina Backcountry during that time. The Candlelight Super event at Walnut Grove Plantation will be an elegant evening of dinner and dancing. The program ...

etyres, the UK's leading online tyre company, announces record sales growth for the 2010 period. Arctic weather conditions combined with rising consumer confidence in online ordering have driven sales to record heights for etyres. etyres saw year on year sales grow by an impressive 26% in 2010 for the UK's leading online tyres company and November also saw a massive 48% surge as vehicle owners rushed to have winter tyres fitted in order to cope with treacherous road conditions caused by severe weather. Tony Bowman, managing director of etyres, said: "Our year on ...

Escapade has launched a new website to mark its 30th year of trading in the costume and party industry. The new website showcases Escapade's extensive range of thousands of fancy dress costumes and accessories providing visitors with a new interface that makes it easy to search, navigate and make purchases through a streamlined buying process. With 30 years experience in bringing consumers across the UK the best fancy dress at the best prices, Escapade has developed the new website to focus on delivering an easy and enjoyable shopping experience to the customer. New ...

Debenhams, the high street retailer, has revealed that Britain's perception of what an ideal woman should look like is changing yet again. After five decades of worshiping tall, thin, slim-hipped women, society is moving towards favouring the traditional hour glass figure, sales figures suggest. Demand for shape wear saw a sales peak of +225% last year, creating the impression of a classic Marilyn Monroe style figure, as well as women's clothes which create the perfect body silhouette.   Debenhams spokeswoman Michelle Dowdall said: "It looks like big busts, big hips ...

Lettingweb has revealed its iPhone App has been recognised as one of the world's top 500 apps. The Sunday Times recently published the second part of its definitive App List. The Lettingweb iPhone app was selected as one of the world's best apps, featuring in the top 500. After a conclusive tour around the world's best apps from Apple to Symbian, Angry Birds to Zagat; The Sunday Times short-listed the best performing apps to produce the world's best 500 apps List. The App List covers all devices and formats, with 40 different top app categories and expert reviews. The ...

Littlewoods Europe, part of the Shop Direct Group and the second largest online clothing retailer in the UK, has announced that the products on its website will now be available for purchase and delivery in 21 additional countries in Europe. Littlewoods Europe currently offers shipment of its products to France, Germany, Portugal and Spain, with delivery costing EUR5 no matter what the customer orders or how big it is. The 21 extra countries which will now be able to order from Littlewoods Europe's online store are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, ...

A new product from EnviroGreen Global Solutions, Inc., could prevent future incidents of food-borne illnesses such as the recent occurrence of Listeria in California which has prompted a multi-state recall of broccoli products, according to William Billows, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer for EGS. The Associated Press reported late on Sunday that Taylor Farms Pacific and Safeway had announced a voluntary, precautionary recall of all broccoli products distributed in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington "after a random test by agricultural officials came ...

Brave New World is proud to announce that "LIFE: The Shyan Selah Show" is being picked up for syndication by Dr. Pat Baccili's Transformation Talk Radio Network. Home to such guests and hosts as Olivia Newton John, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Shirley MacLaine and Dr. Pat's own top rated positive talk radio show, "The Dr. Pat Show - Talk Radio to Thrive By ," the Transformation Talk Radio Network broadcasts on over 300 stations worldwide . To commemorate this new partnership, Shyan Selah will join Dr. Pat Baccili for the launch of her "Global Prosperity Radio Series" ...

TVTopTen.com announced today that the top ten best Health and Nutrition products for March 2011 have just been released, and are as follows: 1. Nutrisystem 2. Jenny Craig 3. South Beach Diet 4. Medifast 5. Weight Watchers 6. Atkins 7. Hoodia 8. Jillian Michaels Diet 9. Sonoma Diet 10. Diet to Go TVTopTen.com features the top ten products of all product categories on the homepage. All products are ranked based on commercial airing data collected from media results, customer reviews, rankings, and consumer demand. TVTopTen.com also tests all "As Seen on TV" ...

Half Price Books, the nation's largest family-owned new and used bookstore chain, has launched its 13th annual Half Pint Library Book Drive which will benefit local children around the country. Now through March 31, Half Price Books stores will serve as drop-off sites to collect new and used children's books, and for the first time, Half Price Books will match each book donated with another book during the drive. Each year, community members are encouraged to donate new and gently used children's books during the six week book drive. Half Price Books employees then sort ...

Pentagon 2000 Software, Inc., the leading provider of software solutions for the Aerospace & Defense industry, is pleased to announce that DAC Aviation International, a Quebec, Canada based aviation services provider, has selected Pentagon 2000SQL to run its extensive global operations. DAC's primary customers include the United Nations-World Food Program, the European Commission, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders. Core capabilities in MRO services and flight operations support a mission to deliver humanitarian aid and materials to areas that were previously difficult ...

Swinglifestyle is thanking its Oregon swingers community by offering them a deal they can't refuse, a 1-year paid membership with full access to the site. Swinglifestyle started out online over a decade ago and is helping swingers to connect in the troubled economy by offering new accounts and current free members in Oregon a 1-year membership with no gimmicks attached. The 1-year membership includes all access to the site such as unlimited picture viewing, unlimited emails, and unlimited forum posts and many more perks absolutely at no cost. Oregon swingers are ...

It is now clear that gum disease should be added to the list of factors that increase your risk of cancer and heart disease. Dental patients with moderate forms of gum disease have an overall 14% increased risk of developing cancer according to a recent British-American report. "People who have been avoiding going to the dentist may want to give their avoidance a second thought," stated Dr. Allan Melnick on his website www.FocusedCareDental.com. It isn't a surprise that most people don't like going to the dentist. In fact only about 40% of Americans see their dentist ...

World-renowned authority on philatelic matters to use STEP Master Data Management system to underpin the development of its online publishing business and to deliver its strategic goal of providing an online trading community for stamp traders globally. AIM listed Stanley Gibbons Group plc, the world's leading name in philately, has selected the STEP master data platform from Stibo Systems, to help develop its online publishing business and achieve its vision of becoming the global hub for philatelic trading by improving its product information management for stamps ...

BELECTRIC Trading GmbH has signed a three-year contract with Solar Frontier to sell and install Solar Frontier's proprietary CIS modules at a volume in the three-digit megawatt range, which will be produced primarily at Solar Frontier's new gigawatt-scale facility in Miyazaki, Japan. Solar Frontier's CIS modules have the competitive advantage of combining economical production with an intrinsically ecological technology. In combination with the Solar Frontier specialist sales and support team, BELECTRIC Trading will be able to apply its extensive expertise in planning and ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---People who demonstrated a stronger brain response to certain brain regions when receiving individually tailored smoking cessation messages were more likely to quit smoking four months after, a new study found. The new University of Michigan study underscores the importance of delivering individually tailored public health messages to curb unhealthy behaviors, said principal investigator Hannah Faye Chua, who led the study as a research assistant professor at the U-M School of Public Health. It also begins to uncover the underlying neural reasons why ...

Jerusalem, February 27, 2011 -- Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the US have discovered the mechanism whereby dangerous mercury eventually finds its way into the fish we eat from the open seas and oceans. The researchers, Prof. Menachem Luria from the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University and Dr. Daniel Obrist of the University of Nevada, found that "passive" mercury normally found in the atmosphere is converted into an "active," oxidized form in the presence of bromine. The passive mercury is generally ...

Medical and scientific experts propose a global framework for the safe production and use of the medicinal plant Kava, including further clinical testing In Australia. The South-Pacific plant has been traditionally used to reduce stress and anxiety but is restricted in some countries. Leading world Kava experts Dr Jerome Sarris from the University of Melbourne, Australia; Professor Rolf Teschke from Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany; and Dr Vincent Lebot from CIRAD, Port-Vila, Vanuatu, have proposed a six-point plan that is intended to become the framework ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Results from a new study contribute to growing evidence that if one of your parents has Alzheimer's disease, the chances of inheriting it from your mother are higher than from your father. The study is published in the March 1, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "It is estimated that people who have first-degree relatives with Alzheimer's disease are four to 10 times more likely to develop the disease themselves compared to people with no family history," said study author Robyn Honea, DPhil, of ...

BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2011 – In the first study to make head-to-head comparisons between tenofovir gel and oral tenofovir – two promising approaches for preventing HIV in women – researchers found that daily use of the vaginal gel achieved a more than 100-times higher concentration of active drug in vaginal tissue than did the oral tablet, while, compared to the gel, the tablet used daily was associated with a 20-times higher active drug concentration in blood. Results of the Phase II trial, which examined differences in drug absorption as well as women's preferences for each ...

BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2011 – A gel developed to protect against HIV during vaginal sex produced a strong antiviral effect when used in the rectum, according to an early-phase study presented today at the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). The results, based on rectal tissue biopsies sampled from HIV-negative men and women who used the product daily for one week, provide the first-ever evidence that tenofovir gel could help reduce the risk of HIV from anal sex, even though the vaginal gel formulation may not be optimal for rectal use. Tenofovir ...

Heart attack patients with a history of depression presenting at emergency departments were less likely to receive priority care than people with other conditions, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj100685.pdf. Several studies indicate that people with heart attacks and depression have worse outcomes than people without, although emergency department care has not been looked at as a possible contributor. In the United States, more than six million patients with mental health issues ...

A medical journal's revenue source can affect drug recommendations, with free journals positively recommending specific drugs while journals funded solely by subscriptions usually recommending against the use of the drugs, states a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj100951.pdf. Little is known about corporate influence on educational medical journals, although physicians rely heavily on journals for continuing medical information. Many of these journals, which rely solely on advertising ...

A small difference in DNA sequence predicts the degree of disability after a stroke, according to a paper published online on February 28 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (www.jem.org). Stroke, the consequence of disturbed blood flow to the brain, can impair speech, movement and vision, but it is currently difficult for clinicians to predict the severity of these side effects or the long-term prognosis. Strokes result in the death of brain cells called neurons. Angeles Almeida and co-workers found that variations in a gene known to control cell death—Tp53—influence ...