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Centura Tile (http://www.Centura.ca), North Americas premier distributor of both residential and commercial floor and wall fashions, is discussing three important things homeowners should keep in mind before selling their home.

So many matters need to be addressed when going through the process of selling a home, says Ross Keltie, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Centura Tile. Apart from the loads of paperwork to ensure the transaction happens smoothly, there are also house maintenance issues that need to be taken care of before selling.

According to Keltie, one of the most important pieces of advice is to pay attention to all of the little things. Replacing loose or chipped tiles, filling in holes in the walls, and regrouting are all work that can be done with minimal time commitment but go a long way in improving the aesthetic of a home, making it more appealing for resale.

The next suggestion is to do whatever it takes so the new owners would never know you had a pet, he continues. Pets cause minor damages to homes, including staining the carpets or scratching wood floors. These are noticeable issues that need to be addressed so its not instantly apparent to the buyer that a pet was present in the home.

The last tip is to make things less personal, Keltie concludes. Yes, you are selling your home, but you need to set the stage so buyers can envision themselves in what would hopefully be their home one day.

Centura Tile is the premier distributor of both residential and commercial floor and wall fashions throughout North America. Founded in 1933, Centura Tile has grown from a single location in Toronto to 14 locations coast-to-coast; each with a full showroom and warehousing facilities. Each Centura Tile location carries an extensive range of floor and wall products, such as ceramic tile, porcelain, mosaics, stone, vinyl, rubber, carpet, laminate, and hardwood from leading manufacturers around the world. Centura Tile also has the most complete range of accessory products to complement any installation, including bases, treads, mortar, grout, engineered cements, adhesives, trim systems, and tools. To learn more about Centura Tile, visit the companys web site at http://www.Centura.ca or call 1-416-785-5151.

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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson did not play this past Sunday because he was deactivated by his team after being indicted for abusing one of his sons. The Vikings owners, Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf, announced yesterday that Peterson, the teams best player, will be activated for this Sundays game against the New Orleans Saints.

No sane person wants to hurt a child and I have no reason to believe Peterson or NFL commissioner Roger Goodell do not want to do what is best for children. The leagues idea to create a team of four women to combat domestic violence is a step in the right direction. But as uncomfortable and sensitive it may be to discuss, the league needs to include fathering children with single women as part of the conversation.

As study after studyafter study has shown, children raised by a single parent are far more likely to be abused than children raised by two parents. In this article in Psychology Today,David Popenoe, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, says Fatherless children have a risk factor of two to three times that of fathered children for a wide range of negative outcomes, including dropping out of high school, giving birth as a teenager and becoming a juvenile delinquent.

This is a broader societal problem40.7% of U.S. births in 2012 were to single mothersand its not clear that football players are any worse than the rest of us. But there seems to be little doubt that the NFL has its share of players who have fathered multiple children with different women to whom they were not married.

A good time to have started this discussion could have been five years ago, when New England Patriots All-World quarterback Tom Brady sired a child with actress and girlfriend Brigitte Moynahan. Brady, who subsequently married model Gisele Bundchen, is more than the face of the Patriots, he is a key ingredient to the NFL brand. But no discussion ensued.

Peterson splitting defenders in the 2008 Pro Bowl. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As former Pro Bowl cornerbackTroy Vincent, who retired after the 2006 season, told ESPN two years ago: By the time the player is drafted, theres a pretty good chance hes thoroughly spoiled and surrounded by enablers. Any potential problemwhether its fathering children out of wedlock, shaky financial investments or just irresponsible spending habitscan be overcome because, well, things have always worked out in the past.

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A year ago, Petersons two-year-old sonwhom the All-Pro had only recently learned was hisdied afteralleged abuseby a man who was dating the boys mother. I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child and I am by no means trying to pick on the Vikings star and his family. I am simply saying that the NFL needs make fatherhood part of its program to help children. Tom Brady would have been a great place to start. But better late than never.

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We have all seen a peacock show its extravagant, colorful tail feathers in courtship of a peahen. Now, a group of researchers have used a special camera developed by an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis to discover that female northern swordtail fish choose their mates based on a similar display.

Marine biologists at the University of Texas at Austin used a bioinspired polarization camera developed by Viktor Gruev, PhD, associate professor of computer science & engineering at Washington University, to make the discovery. His camera has been used in other applications in marine biology and also is now being used at the School of Medicine to help physicians and researchers see cancer cells very early in development.

In the new study, the researchers found that female swordtail fish are attracted to certain patterns, called polarization ornaments, visible in polarized light in large male swordtail fish.

"There is a lot of social interaction among the fish," Gruev said. "We saw the female fish checking out the large males and looking at their polarization ornaments. During the whole courting behavior, the more polarization a male has, the higher the chance for mating."

Various animals can detect polarization, or the alignment of light waves in a plane. Previous research found polarization sensitivity in invertebrate animals, including octopus, but this is the first research to find polarization behavior in vertebrate animals.

The research was published online Sept. 2, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.

Gruev's camera is similar to polarized sunglasses, which reduce glare by blocking polarized light. The camera is built with nanomaterials inside the camera, allowing it to capture the polarization properties of light in real time.

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3 hours ago by Beth Miller A video polarimetry image of a large male northern swordtail in false color shows the differences in polarization on its surface.

We have all seen a peacock show its extravagant, colorful tail feathers in courtship of a peahen. Now, a group of researchers have used a special camera developed by an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis to discover that female northern swordtail fish choose their mates based on a similar display.

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In the new study, the researchers found that female swordtail fish are attracted to certain patterns, called polarization ornaments, visible in polarized light in large male swordtail fish.

"There is a lot of social interaction among the fish," Gruev said. "We saw the female fish checking out the large males and looking at their polarization ornaments. During the whole courting behavior, the more polarization a male has, the higher the chance for mating."

Various animals can detect polarization, or the alignment of light waves in a plane. Previous research found polarization sensitivity in invertebrate animals, including octopus, but this is the first research to find polarization behavior in vertebrate animals.

The research was published online Sept. 2, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.

Gruev's camera is similar to polarized sunglasses, which reduce glare by blocking polarized light. The camera is built with nanomaterials inside the camera, allowing it to capture the polarization properties of light in real time.

"We changed the polarization so that the large males with high contrast showed good contrast in their polarization ornaments," Gruev says. "When we suppressed the polarization ornaments externally with light, the females didn't pay attention to the males. When we changed the light sources to change the polarization signals on the fish body, the social interactions between female and male swordfish significantly increase."

Gruev is an expert in polarization and signal processing. The camera is a replication of the visual system of the mantis shrimp, which is among the most sophisticated vision of all animals.

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