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When out of town lodging can be a very important thing to consider. You will want a bed, room and sometimes nice breakfasts are good when you like to travel. I personally think that accommodation such as nice breakfasts and a comfortable bed are definitely a must if they want my business. When you like to travel you will want to be aware of different places for lodging for the night. Inns, motels, bed and breakfasts? the list goes on, you want to find the best inn with the best policies and accommodations. Be sure to search for your hotel ahead of time, or else you might find yourself with terrible lodging such as sleeping in a cheap motel for the night.

News of better ways to travel spreads quickly. Sure, you still need to find a hotel or other type of lodging to crash for the night. These different motels, inns and hotels can cost you a lot. Plus you use to not even really know if there would be any good hotel nearby where you were going to travel by until you got there. The news has made me believe that now all it takes is for a person to get on their computer and search for ?hotels in Salt Lake City? or wherever you are.

Different policies that a hotel or wherever will vary depending on the lodging. Some places have policies of not being too loud after a certain hour. These policies are going to vary between different motels and hotels. I know that my favorite hotels to stay in are they inns that have breakfasts in the morning. It makes staying in a hotel that much more enjoyable. Trends of design and structure will depend on where it is your lodging is located. Some hotels have nice swimming pools outside whereas other inns might have a nice weight room. The difference will depend mainly on the price of your hotel and the location it is in as well.

Finding cheap motels is always an exciting adventure. A cheap motel can be one of the scariest things of your life. It is definitely going to be a little bit scarier lodging than lets say a five star hotel. Which brings me to my next point. What is it that you look for in hotels or inns? Do you look for a hotel that has great service and dedication to their customers? I know that is what I want. The lodging hospitality is very important to me. I want to stay in a hotel where I feel like I am respected and important to them. That hospitality will bring in a lot of business from all over. News of that accommodation is going to travel quickly.

Breakfasts, policies, trends, hospitality and what kind of bed they use are all going to be pretty big factors when making the final business decision with your choice of lodging. Be sure to search for the best hotels on the internet. Where you can get affordable prices for minimum effort on your end.

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Slatter Projects | Australian Construction Focus Magazine

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-By Robert Hoshowsky

At the youthful age of 39, Mark Slatter has already dedicated over half his life to learning about and working in the nation?s construction industry. The Owner and Managing Director of WA-based Slatter Projects Pty Ltd (trading as Slatter Constructions), Mr Slatter?s positive, go-getter attitude has taken him on a journey throughout a diverse range of projects, including schools, hospitals, hotels, offices, refurbishments, aquatic centres, mixed-use developments, retirement villages, and a great deal more. Along with acquiring a rich skill set during this time spent working for others, Mr Slatter also realised which types of projects he enjoys best.

?I definitely prefer commercial work,? he says. ?There is always a lot of variation. Years ago, I became a little bit bored in residential, as it was always the same thing over and over again. With one-off commercial projects, there are a unique set of challenges every single time.?

Formed in 2010, Slatter Projects is the culmination of Mark?s many years in the construction industry. The company ? a registered builder with considerable combined experience in commercial and residential construction ? represents a carefully planned and logical progression for him, having begun his career with prominent homebuilder J-Corp in 1992 as a Trainee Scheduler. In time, Mark moved on to work as an Estimator for Dale Alcock Homes, ?WA?s Most Awarded Home Builder? with over 14,000 homes built in Perth and the South West. As his skills increased so did his ambition, and he worked for a number of other companies, including commercial builder Devaugh as a Contract administrator, and later at BGC Construction and Perth-based Merit Projects as a Project Manager, and completing his Building Registration diploma.

Having gained considerable experience in many sectors of the industry over the years, Mark, along with a business partner, created Niche Construction WA Pty Ltd in May of 2004. Serving as Managing Director for Niche Construction, Mark and his company received considerable praise in the industry for the high quality of commercial work they produced, and won several awards from the prestigious Master Builders Association (MBA), including Best New Builder. In 2009 ? the same year he sold his shares in Niche Construction to the company?s other owner ? Mark was praised for his cumulative body of work and achievements with Niche, and received a 40 Under 40 award. The honour, designed to celebrate the depth of business talent in Western Australia, is presented annually to 40 of WA?s pre-eminent leaders under the age of 40, and showcases the determination, commercial drive, and philanthropic pursuits of these young men and women.

Slatter Projects is Created

Not one to sit idle, Mark immediately formed his own company in 2010 along with four office staff, two supervisors, ten carpenters and labourers, and a number of trusted and reliable subcontractors. Mark?s experience as Managing Director reflects his depth of experience in all aspects of strategic planning, systems implementation, business development, project management, contract administration, estimating, and financial management. In just two years, Slatter Projects has successfully taken on about 20 projects, ranging from work for banks to a wide range of government jobs.

?Our capability today suits projects from $100,000 to $10 million, and we usually work on six or seven projects at one time,? says Mark. ?We had a turnover of two and a half million dollars in the first year and are on track to turn over $20 million in the second year, so it is a massive step-up in growth. We?ll keep growing ? though not at that speed ? and will consolidate for the next couple of years.?

For Mark, it is vital that the company maintains its professional but personal approach to business, an approach which has gained the company a large amount of repeat business with well-known clients like the Netherlands-based Rabobank group. One of the world?s 25 largest financial institutions (based on tier one capital), Rabobank dates back to 1898, and has offices in Australia. To date, Slatter has taken on three refurb projects for Rabobank.

The company also enjoys a successful relationship with another international giant, Liebherr-Australia Pty Ltd. With offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Mackay, Mt Thorley (Hunter valley), Perth and Sydney, Liebherr-Australia is well-known in the nation?s construction and mining sectors for offering support services for a range of crawler cranes, deep foundation machines, earthmoving equipment, construction cranes, and mining equipment. Slatter has completed three projects for Libherr-Australia, including a fit-out and hardstand.

Successful Government Contracts

Taking on a number of projects for various levels of government, Slatter Projects already has a reputation for producing high quality work on time and on budget. The firm is on tender lists for jobs but, Mark says, upcoming changes regarding how the government selects contractors to take on jobs should decidedly work in the company?s favour. ?The government is bringing in a qualitative criteria as well, based on experience and previous performance. That?s been good for us, because we have quite a track record now. It has been open tender, but there have been occasions where they put out an expression of interest, and we?ve got on the select list to tender.?

Since the company was formed, it has been responsible for a good number of state government projects. Working for various departments under the auspices of Building Management and Work, Slatter Projects has built office accommodation and internal fit-outs of existing buildings for the Department of Tourism, Department of Transport, and is now well into its fourth job for the WA Police.

At present, the company is undertaking a design and construct for Centrelink. Operated by the Australian Government Department of Human Services, Centrelink offers a range of health, social, and welfare payments and services and assistance programs to individuals out of work and looking for employment. ?For this project, we?ve employed the design team, and are managing construction,? says Mark. ?Instead of tendering the project, we negotiate with the client directly on a price, and then we bring the designers on board, and we manage that process as well.? Occasionally, clients will approach Slatter with a contract design in hand, and the company will ?take it from there.?

In addition to creating a team of designers and subcontractors, Slatter Projects offers other services upon request, such as helping clients with permits and managing the process to ensure it runs smoothly from start to finish.

Future Plans

In keeping with his company?s progress to date, Owner and Managing Director Mark Slatter is keeping an eye on future expansion. He hopes to take on a dozen jobs this year, and continue working from the southwest to the midwest. The company is investigating opening an office in Geraldton, the capital of WA?s Midwest and gateway to the Abrolhos Islands. ?We have a continuity of work in Geraldton, so we are looking at opening up an office there.? One of the projects the company is considering in Geraldton is breathing new life into an eight-storey older office building, converting it into a 37-unit apartment block. If all goes as planned, the project will give the company the ?kick off? to creating a new office in Geraldton.

?In the future, we?re going to definitely focus on a fit-out division, and then we?ll branch into all types of commercial, which will include mixed-use types of projects,? says Mark, who would like to see his company as one of the Top 25 builders in WA. With a strong team, including Project Manager Rob Murrell ? who worked with Mark at Niche Construction ? Site Supervisor Les Billington, Site Supervisor and fit-out specialist Chris Falla, and the company?s most recent hire Katie Andrews, who facilitates contract administration and tendering ? Slatter Projects is well on its way.

?We?re a smaller company, but we have the contacts and experience of a bigger company. In this way, clients get not only our professionalism, but our personal attention.?

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Breakthrough in understanding ultrafast magnetism

ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) ? An international consortium of scientists from The Netherlands, Sweden and Ukraine claim a breakthrough in the theory of ultrafast magnetic phenomena.

They publish their results on February 3rd in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Magic of magnets attracting or repulsing objects fascinated people since ancient time, but yet 100 years ago understanding the nature of magnetism remained to be very illusive. At that time the basics of quantum mechanics -- an essential ingredient of modern theory of magnetism -- had just been founded. The facts that every magnet consist elementary atomic magnets (spins), strongly coupled by a purely quantum mechanical force, called exchange interaction, had not been discovered yet.

Today's physicists are able to describe magnetic phenomena modeling a magnet as an ensemble of spins strongly coupled by the exchange interaction and in many cases such a model works sufficiently well. However, even nowadays quantum mechanical theory of magnetism is far from to be complete since it fails to describe magnetic phenomena if the latter evolve on a time-scale much faster than 100 ps. The main reason for it is the fact that the established theories of magnetism have been making the assumption that the exchange interaction is infinitely powerful and that after an excitation of the magnet the exchange interaction establishes equilibrium among the spins infinitely fast.

An international consortium of scientists from Sweden, Ukraine and The Netherlands have now been able to push the frontiers of knowledge further and achieve a breakthrough in theory of ultrafast magnetism, suggesting a general framework that describes magnetization dynamics on the time-scale of the coupling between the spins, thus revealing the real power of the exchange interaction at work.

The new theory leads to results that completely contradict the expectations of the established theory of magnetic phenomena. For example, because the coupling between the spins is no longer considered as infinite, different spins can evolve very different. Perhaps even more unexpected, an ultrafast excitation of a magnet will align the spins for a short period of time opposite to the alignment in the groundstate, thereby seemingly breaking the strong coupling between the spins. This has been observed recently for spins with antiparallel coupling and the new theory predicts that it is possible as well for parallel coupling using a different type of excitation. Hence, this work opens up a possibility to harness the hidden power of the exchange interaction for revolutionary new, counterintuitive approaches of recording and processing magnetically stored information at unprecedentedly fast time scales.

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Honey could be effective at treating and preventing wound infections

Public release date: 31-Jan-2012
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Manuka honey could help clear chronic wound infections and even prevent them from developing in the first place, according to a new study published in Microbiology. The findings provide further evidence for the clinical use of manuka honey to treat bacterial infections in the face of growing antibiotic resistance.

Streptococcus pyogenes is a normal skin bacterium that is frequently associated with chronic (non-healing) wounds. Bacteria that infect wounds can clump together forming 'biofilms', which form a barrier to drugs and promotes chronic infection. Researchers at Cardiff Metropolitan University have shown that manuka honey can not only destroy fully-formed S. pyogenes biofilms in vitro but also prevent the bacteria initially binding to components of wound tissue.

Honey has long been acknowledged for its antimicrobial properties. Traditional remedies containing honey were used in the topical treatment of wounds by diverse ancient civilisations. Manuka honey is derived from nectar collected by honey bees foraging on the manuka tree found growing in New Zealand and parts of Australia. It is included in modern licensed wound-care products around the world. Manuka honey has been reported to inhibit more than 80 species of bacteria, yet the antimicrobial properties of honey have not yet been fully exploited by modern medicine as its mechanisms of action are not fully understood.

Wounds that are infected with S. pyogenes often fail to respond to treatment. This is largely due to the development of biofilms which may be difficult for antibiotics to penetrate - in addition to problems of antibiotic resistance. The results of the study showed that very small concentrations of honey prevented the start of biofilm development and that treating established biofilms grown in Petri dishes with honey for 2 hours killed up to 85% of bacteria within them.

The Cardiff team are working towards providing molecular explanations for the antibacterial action of honey. The latest study reveals that honey can disrupt the interaction between S. pyogenes and the human protein fibronectin, which is displayed on the surface of damaged cells. "Molecules on the surface of the bacteria latch onto human fibronectin, anchoring the bacteria to the cell. This allows infection to proceed and biofilms to develop," explained Dr Sarah Maddocks who led the study. "We found that honey reduced the expression of these bacterial surface proteins, inhibiting binding to human fibronectin, therefore making biofilm formation less likely. This is a feasible mechanism by which manuka honey minimizes the initiation of acute wound infections and also the establishment of chronic infections.

Ongoing work in Dr Maddocks' lab is investigating other wound-associated bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Manuka honey has also been shown to be effective at killing these bacteria. "There is an urgent need to find innovative and effective ways of controlling wound infections that are unlikely to contribute to increased antimicrobial resistance. No instances of honey-resistant bacteria have been reported to date, or seem likely," said Dr Maddocks. "Applying antibacterial agents directly to the skin to clear bacteria from wounds is cheaper than systemic antibiotics and may well complement antibiotic therapy in the future. This is significant as chronic wounds account for up to 4% of health care expenses in the developed world."

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Contact: Laura Udakis
l.udakis@sgm.ac.uk
44-011-898-81843
Society for General Microbiology

Manuka honey could help clear chronic wound infections and even prevent them from developing in the first place, according to a new study published in Microbiology. The findings provide further evidence for the clinical use of manuka honey to treat bacterial infections in the face of growing antibiotic resistance.

Streptococcus pyogenes is a normal skin bacterium that is frequently associated with chronic (non-healing) wounds. Bacteria that infect wounds can clump together forming 'biofilms', which form a barrier to drugs and promotes chronic infection. Researchers at Cardiff Metropolitan University have shown that manuka honey can not only destroy fully-formed S. pyogenes biofilms in vitro but also prevent the bacteria initially binding to components of wound tissue.

Honey has long been acknowledged for its antimicrobial properties. Traditional remedies containing honey were used in the topical treatment of wounds by diverse ancient civilisations. Manuka honey is derived from nectar collected by honey bees foraging on the manuka tree found growing in New Zealand and parts of Australia. It is included in modern licensed wound-care products around the world. Manuka honey has been reported to inhibit more than 80 species of bacteria, yet the antimicrobial properties of honey have not yet been fully exploited by modern medicine as its mechanisms of action are not fully understood.

Wounds that are infected with S. pyogenes often fail to respond to treatment. This is largely due to the development of biofilms which may be difficult for antibiotics to penetrate - in addition to problems of antibiotic resistance. The results of the study showed that very small concentrations of honey prevented the start of biofilm development and that treating established biofilms grown in Petri dishes with honey for 2 hours killed up to 85% of bacteria within them.

The Cardiff team are working towards providing molecular explanations for the antibacterial action of honey. The latest study reveals that honey can disrupt the interaction between S. pyogenes and the human protein fibronectin, which is displayed on the surface of damaged cells. "Molecules on the surface of the bacteria latch onto human fibronectin, anchoring the bacteria to the cell. This allows infection to proceed and biofilms to develop," explained Dr Sarah Maddocks who led the study. "We found that honey reduced the expression of these bacterial surface proteins, inhibiting binding to human fibronectin, therefore making biofilm formation less likely. This is a feasible mechanism by which manuka honey minimizes the initiation of acute wound infections and also the establishment of chronic infections.

Ongoing work in Dr Maddocks' lab is investigating other wound-associated bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Manuka honey has also been shown to be effective at killing these bacteria. "There is an urgent need to find innovative and effective ways of controlling wound infections that are unlikely to contribute to increased antimicrobial resistance. No instances of honey-resistant bacteria have been reported to date, or seem likely," said Dr Maddocks. "Applying antibacterial agents directly to the skin to clear bacteria from wounds is cheaper than systemic antibiotics and may well complement antibiotic therapy in the future. This is significant as chronic wounds account for up to 4% of health care expenses in the developed world."

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