Standout UK, based in Desford Hall, Leicester, beat off strong competition to be awarded the Business Growth and Innovation category at the 2nd annual Supplier Diversity Awards organised by Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK). The awards, which took place at London Marriott, Grosvenor Square Hotel and attended by over 400 people including blue chip organisations, recognise ethnic minority businesses who have grown their business and corporate buyers who have added diversity to their list of regular suppliers. Founder and managing director of Standout UK, Dan Barber ...

ESET, the leader in proactive threat detection, today announced that Emirates Insurance Company, one of the Middle East region's largest diversified financial services providers, has chosen ESET NOD32 to secure its IT infrastructure to minimize data loss risk arising out of security threats. Incorporated in Abu Dhabi 1982, the company's principal activity is the transaction of insurance and reinsurance business of all classes. "We were determined to find a holistic security solution that helped prevent security outbreaks, minimise data loss risk, stop malware and protect ...

Calgary Real Estate offers various improvisation services and purchase options for real estate properties. Panorama Hills Real Estate and Country Hills Real Estate both are significant undertakings of responsibility areas when the housing and real estate of Calgary is concerned. This is because both Panorama Hills and Country Hills are a part of the northern quadrant of Calgary. So, geographical proximity and the similar case of flocking in of immigrants along with population growth make Panorama Hills Real Estate and Country Hills Real Estate of immense importance. Composition ...

GTECH G2 has partnered with Income Access to provide its casino and bingo software licensees with state-of-the-art affiliate management and marketing tools. G2, which includes St Minver and Boss Media, will offer licensees the opportunity to join the G2 Affiliate Network or set up their own programs using Income Access as a white label software solution. Income Access resources will give affiliates of GTECH G2 software licensees access to a wide range of in-depth tracking and reporting features, powerful marketing and communication tools and the ability to manage multiple ...

Car hire has been donated for a Diabetes UK fundraising event by a leading car hire price comparison website, known as Carrentals.co.uk. The event saw three dedicated volunteers become three legged and climb some of the country's highest mountains in Wales, England and Scotland. Steven Craig, Ann Bentley and Claire Moon are the three who took the challenge and have been helping the charity Diabetes UK raise money for care holidays for kids with type 1 diabetes. The trio revealed that they all have diabetes and were diagnosed from a very young age, they have for more ...

Nothing breeds confidence in a good law firm like results. The Brooklyn Lawyers, Reibman & Weiner certainly has achieved their share of successful outcomes. More than that, however, they have a remarkably unique blend of experience that's sets them far apart of other law firms. In 1993, attorneys Marc Reibman and Steven Weiner combined forces to form the successful law firm that they are today. Combined they have over 50 years of legal experience. Additionally, Steven Weiner is also a licensed physician, making him an indispensable asset in medical malpractice cases. ...

The US-friendly online casino, Slotastic.com, has four progressive jackpots currently over a million dollars and a total jackpot pool now over $5,000,000. Although million dollar payouts do not happen every day, Slotastic online slots players are regular big-money winners. Slotastic.com is the home of the largest online progressive jackpots available to American players. The massive Jackpot Pinatas jackpot, now over $1,600,000, is the biggest. The Aztec's Millions jackpot and the jackpot tied to both the Mid-Life Crisis and Shopping Spree slots are all over $1 million ...

KeChange - an Internet marketing firm that helps businesses generate new customers and engage current customers on digital platforms - will host a live LinkedIn webinar to share basic best B2B practices on LinkedIn. To be held on Friday, October 15, 2010 at 12pm EDT, this webinar, hosted by KeChange Internet Marketing Associate Ilona Lemeshov, will help viewers best leverage LinkedIn's platform and features to effectively represent and promote their company and personal brand. You'll learn how to optimize your profile to get found by prospective customers and clients, ...

Millions of Brits are struggling to care for elderly parents and grandchildren in a growing number of four generation families. An aging population means that thirty per cent of UK adults are now part of four generation families fueling a rapidly growing 'sandwich generation' - the name given to them because they are caught between younger and older family members and unable to spread their time effectively. A survey has revealed that a massive 65% of 'sandwich generation' Brits are struggling to balance the homecare needs of both the oldest and the youngest generations ...

Eidogen-Sertanty, Inc., a San Diego-based computational drug discovery solutions provider, announced the release of MObileREagents (MORE), an iPhone app that provides access to approximately 680,000 reagents for organic synthesis and screening compounds available from 22 suppliers. With MORE, you can search reagents by exact or partial name and formula or by drawing a complete or partial structure with your finger tips. You can also limit your search to specific suppliers and bookmark your search results. An exciting feature of MORE is the ability to convert a picture ...

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has signed an anti-crime law that is designed to increase the opportunities for inmates to obtain valuable education and training. The ultimate goal, of course, is to improve an inmate's chances of making a successful transition from prison. The law addresses sentencing reform by allowing parole eligibility for some House-of-Correction inmates serving time for non-violent drug offenses. If such an inmate has served one-half of his mandatory minimum sentence - and no aggravating factors are found - he may see the parole board to petition ...

Today, Dr. William Hyatt Gordon, LEED-AP, 41, announced that he has spent the vast majority of the summer of 2010 repositioning Gordon Atlantic Development Corporation, in a plan called GA-II, which expands the firm from its current markets of France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States to include Canada, Puerto Rico, and Switzerland. While Gordon Atlantic Development continues to serve all fifty (50) states, the firm will now include Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, as focus markets alongside of New York, New York; Newark, New Jersey; ...

The Celtic organization is one to be respected with its rich history; timeless roster of highly-esteemed athletes; and hard-fought NBA championships accumulated over the years. Legendary athletes such as Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Bob Cousy, and others were not only great athletes but exemplary human beings worthy of anyone's respect. Recently, this highly-regarded reputation was put into question and potentially jeopardized. After a Celtic practice on Monday, October 4, 2010, Paul Pierce, Glen Davis, Nate Robinson, Kevin Garnett and Shaquille O'Neal created the following ...

DASCOM Americas, your choice for top shelf printing solutions including a full line of Tally serial matrix products is pleased to announce OnePrint, a powerful and versatile server-based print management software platform. The platform allows for an IBM Mainframe and/or mid range print job distribution over TCP/IT to any printer in a Windows environment. OnePrint lowers capital and operational costs since it is a "software only" solution that enables a large number of simultaneous IBM host print connections running a TCP/IP stack. The software runs with minimal intervention, ...

For years the numbers of people experiencing chronic pain and coexisting psychological disorders, including addiction, have been increasing significantly. According to research published in Pain Physician Journal (2006), 90 percent of people in the US receiving treatment for pain management are prescribed opiate medication. Of that number 9 percent to 41 percent had opiate abuse/addiction problems. The Addiction Free Pain Management (APM) 20 CE Hour Certification training is designed to teach the skills needed to successfully work with people with chronic pain and potential ...

PuckProspect.com (www.puckprospect.com) introduced its premier hockey scouting and hockey recruiting service to the North American market six months ago. This hockey scouting and hockey recruiting service is not for everyone! It's not for football players, baseball players, basketball players... you get the idea. It's for hockey people! Unlike other scouting websites that are full of multiple sports to choose from, PuckProspect.com focuses on hockey and only hockey. Imagine if you are a hockey player wanting to advance your playing career but you don't know where ...

The catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, which began with the annual monsoons towards the end of July 2010, has affected nearly 62,000 square miles — or one fourth of the entire surface of the USA and Alaska. Six million are homeless. Eight million children are at risk of disease. More than 1,600 are dead already. Flood waters have washed away entire towns, thousands of miles of roads and railways, and damaged the infrastructure of a large portion of the country. Thousands of health facilities are destroyed and rising waters have inundated crop-producing areas, threatening ...

Many drug-resistant infections are the result of bacterial biofilms, structured aggregates of bacteria that live on surfaces and that are extremely resistant to environmental stresses. These biofilms impact human health in many ways — cystic fibrosis, for example, is a disease in which patients die from airway bacterial biofilm infections that are invulnerable to even the most potent antibiotics. Now, UCLA researchers and their colleagues have found that during the initial stages of biofilm formation, bacteria can actually stand upright and "walk" as part of their adaptation ...

In an experiment exploring the chemical processes that might be going on in the hazy atmosphere enshrouding Saturn's largest moon, a University of Arizona-led team of scientists discovered a variety of complex organic molecules – including amino acids and nucleotide bases, the most important ingredients of life on Earth. "Our team is the first to be able to do this in an atmosphere without liquid water. Our results show that it is possible to make very complex molecules in the outer parts of an atmosphere," said Sarah Hörst, a graduate student in the UA's Lunar and Planetary ...

Cambridge, Mass., October 7, 2010 – A collaborative, six-year study of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Beijing and surrounding provinces suggests that combustion efficiency, a component of overall energy efficiency, is improving in the region. The findings, published in the September 21 issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, are generally consistent with official Chinese government statistics and could bolster their credibility as international negotiations proceed on commitments of China and other nations to combat climate change. A team of atmospheric scientists ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 8, 2010 – Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests available from retailers and the Internet let people learn about their genomes without going to a doctor, but they raise the question of who is responsible for oversight and regulation of these tests. Critics worry about safety risks if consumers base important lifestyle or medical decisions on inaccurate or misunderstood test results. A group of four leading bioethical, legal and medical researchers believes the solution will require an innovative approach that combines premarket studies done before tests ...

The family Cobitidae is a group of small, bottom dwelling, primary freshwater fishes . They are widely distributed in Eurasia and Morocco, with the greatest diversity in southern Asia. However, known fossil cobitids are scarce, and only include a few species of Cobitis and a species of Sabanejewia. Most of the materials consist of either detached suborbital spines or poorly preserved skeletons with little information about the suborbital spines. †Cobitis longipectoralis Zhou, 1992, from the late early Miocene of Shanwang, Shandong Province, eastern China, is the only species ...

Los Baños, Philippines – Environmental changes are to blame for a 15% drop in the yield of "miracle rice" – also known as rice variety IR8 – since the 1960s when it was first released and lauded for its superior yields that helped avert famine across Asia at the time. IR8 used to produce 9.5 to 10.5 tons per hectare, significantly more than other varieties in the 1960s when average global rice yields were around only 2 tons per hectare. But, when grown today, IR8 can yield only around 7 tons per hectare. "IR8 still performs very well considering global average rice ...

Chevy Chase, MD—Using novel technology allowing "virtual bone biopsies" researchers have found that a common treatment for prostate cancer called androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is associated with structural decay of cortical and trabecular bone. The study has been accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide and estimates suggest there are currently 600,000 men in the United States with the condition who are being treated with ADT. Prostate ...

Chevy Chase, MD—The use of testosterone assays for patient care and research is on the rise as new research links testosterone to a variety of diseases and conditions. Although the assays are heavily used, discrepancies and inaccuracies in measurements resulting from the various assays are widespread. Seeking to address this critical health issue, a multidisciplinary group of experts convened by The Endocrine Society and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just issued recommendations for improving and standardizing testosterone testing in a consensus statement ...