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LateRooms.com - See Athlete Live at Gloucester Guildhall

2011-06-08
Athlete are due to play a stripped-back set of their classic hits at the Gloucester Guildhall next month. The chart-topping indie band's show on Saturday July 16th will provide fans with a chance to hear special unplugged versions of songs like Wires, You Got the Style and El Salvador. According to a statement from the group, they decided to give their back catalogue a mellow, acoustic reinvention following the success of a one-off show in London earlier this year. With four studio albums to their name, the south London outfit have plenty of songs to choose from ...

LateRooms.com.au - Watch Australian International Motor Show in Melbourne

2011-06-08
Melbourne will host the Australian International Motor Show (AIMS) for the first time next month. The event was formed after the organisers of the prestigious Melbourne and Sydney motor shows decided to join forces at the 2009 Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. Under the agreement, the AIMS will be shared in alternate years between the two cities. Having launched in Sydney in 2010, the event is set to debut in Melbourne between July 1st and 10th 2011. A packed line-up of big-name exhibitors has been put together for the occasion, with the likes of Audi, ...

AsiaRooms.com - Kalim Kinetic Art Fair Celebrates Creativity in Phuket

2011-06-08
The first annual Kalim Kinetic Art Fair is taking place in Phuket until June 25th, showcasing the creativity of children and adults on the island. It is being held at Brush Restaurant & Lounge and has been organised by the venue alongside Underwood Factory. In the run-up to the event, people were invited to design their own kinetic art sculpture, with many of the pieces coming from local schools and other Phuket organisations. While contributors were asked to make their artwork themselves, Underwood offered to create items if the designs were sent into them ...

AsiaRooms.com - Check Out World's Best Movies in Kuala Lumpur

2011-06-08
The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) presents the World's Best Movies over the course of this month, with three films set to be screened. All of the motion pictures lined up to be shown are Japanese and come from two of the country's most celebrated directors. Kids Return, Kikujiro and Ran will be screened on June 4th, 11th and 18th respectively in the Indicine cinema at the KLPAC complex. The first two films are written and directed by Takeshi Kitano, who is perhaps best known for explosive yet poetic titles such as Brother, Hana-Bi and Zatoichi. While ...

AsiaRooms.com - Dance the Night Away at Le Castle Vania's Bali Show

2011-06-08
Acclaimed electronic music DJ Le Castle Vania is set to play in Bali on June 23rd, performing his trademark mixture of beats. He will take the stage at Deja'Vu on Blue Ocean Beach, where the tunes are set to go on until late into the night. Le Castle Vania - real name Dylan Eiland - is originally from Georgia in the US and established himself as an artist in Atlanta. Eiland has performed alongside established acts such as MSTRKRFT, Soulwax and Crystal Castles, as well as receiving rave reviews for some of his remixes. He has produced his own takes on popular ...

AsiaRooms.com - Beerfest Asia Comes to Singapore in June

2011-06-08
A wide variety of fine ales will be available to sample at Beerfest Asia in Singapore later this month. Fans of the alcoholic drink are set to be spoilt for choice as the continent's top breweries share their products and engage in conversation with customers from June 16th to 19th. The organisers are expecting about 30,000 people to attend this year's edition, which will be the third in its short history. On the event's official website, they stated: "Visitors get to enjoy over 250 different beers from all over the world at affordable prices from as low as ...

AsiaRooms.com - Locution Relocations on Show in Bangkok

2011-06-08
Bangkok's 100 Tonson Gallery is currently showcasing the work of Phaptawan Suwannakudt in an exhibition entitled Locution Relocations. The Thai-born artist has been based in Sydney for the past 14 years and the installation will display some of her creative output from this time. Locution Relocations will be on show until July 10th 2011 and includes paintings and sculptures. According to the organisers of the exhibition, Suwannakudt uses the feeling of living as an outsider to inspire her creativity. She completed a degree in English and German at Silkaporn ...

Safety of Getting Covered Through the Web Discussed by OnlineAutoInsurance.com

2011-06-08
A new report released last month by consumer-research company comScore indicates that the annual volume of auto insurance policies purchased online grew by about 80 percent between 2006 and 2010. With more and more shoppers purchasing their policies through this method, it's important to stop and ask about the safety of buying such a complex item as financial protection over the Web. In a new FAQ published on OnlineAutoInsurance.com, the writers look into the possible pitfalls in the process of buying policies and getting car insurance quotes online. They say that buying ...

Dupont Archives Announces Benefit of NationalIPA Contract on Aurora Furniture Systems

Dupont Archives Announces Benefit of NationalIPA Contract on Aurora Furniture Systems
2011-06-08
Dupont Archives of Bristol, Connecticut, as an authorized distributor of Aurora office furniture and storage systems, is pleased to announce cooperative pricing through a national buying contract with NationalIPA. Towns, schools, non-profits and other institutions can now benefit from the buying power and volume pricing of a national contract on any Aurora furniture or storage system. Imagine the discounts you can realize with the backing of Aurora, NationalIPA and Dupont Archives! Ron Keith, Business Development Manager for Dupont Archives said: "Towns and municipalities ...

WSO2 Summer School Features Free Class on End-to-End Governance in the Enterprise

WSO2 Summer School Features Free Class on End-to-End Governance in the Enterprise
2011-06-08
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance allows businesses to effectively manage the consistency, predictability, change and interdependencies of services. However, no single governance product is comprehensive enough to address the multiple elements of an enterprise SOA. Instead, IT professionals need to implement an end-to-end governance strategy, applied at varying levels of an SOA project and utilizing a range of technologies. This approach provides a stable solution to complex policies and redundant services by maximizing the quality and trust within a service ...

Dentist in Houston Extends Practice to Online Facebook and Twitter Communities

2011-06-08
Leading dentist in Houston, Dr. Ellen Lim, is pleased to announce the creation of Facebook and Twitter accounts for her practice in order to stay connected with existing and potential patients. With the introduction of these social media channels, patients can now access more personalized information, as well as learn more about other patient's' experiences with Dr. Lim and her staff of dental professionals. "These days patients are using the Internet for daily information, including sharing resources and interacting with other patients on social media websites. ...

LA Dentist Simplifies Dental Care With Online Appointment Scheduling

2011-06-08
Recognized as the best dentist in Los Angeles, Dr. Shervin Louie makes visiting his office for dental procedures easier than ever with his website's new online appointment requesting feature. The ability to request appointments online has allowed the practice to offer more convenient and easy ways for patients to receive care from Dr. Shervin Louie. Patients can now request an appointment with Dr. Louie via the practice's innovative website. The new appointment tool is easy to use. Simply by visiting the practice's website, patients can fill out the brief request form ...

New data still have scientists in dark over dark matter

New data still have scientists in dark over dark matter
2011-06-08
A dark-matter experiment deep in the Soudan mine of Minnesota now has detected a seasonal signal variation similar to one an Italian experiment has been reporting for more than a decade. The new seasonal variation, recorded by the Coherent Germanium Neutrino Technology (CoGeNT) experiment, is exactly what theoreticians had predicted if dark matter turned out to be what physicists call Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). "We cannot call this a WIMP signal. It's just what you might expect from it," said Juan Collar, associate professor in physics at the University ...

Heirloom Caribbean Real Estate Fund Enters Into Joint Venture to Develop Harbour Island, Antigua

Heirloom Caribbean Real Estate Fund Enters Into Joint Venture to Develop Harbour Island, Antigua
2011-06-08
Heirloom Fund Management Ltd., manager of the Heirloom Caribbean Real Estate Fund (HCREF), is pleased to announce that it has entered into a joint venture partnership agreement with Stanhope Shepherd Ltd. HCREF will provide up to USD $50 million in debt and equity financing for the development of the Harbour Island Residences in Jolly Harbour, Antigua. At the sod turning ceremony held last week, Antiguan Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer stated that this major project has the full support and backing of the Government of Antigua. Harbour Island is a 33 acre man-made island ...

Potential treatment for deadly E. coli disease

2011-06-08
A potential life-saving treatment for severe E. coli food poisoning outbreaks – developed more than a decade ago – hasn't gone forward into clinical trials because of lack of commercial interest. University of Adelaide researchers produced a "designer" probiotic bacterium which binds and neutralises the toxin produced by E. coli, which causes life-threatening attack on the kidneys and blood vessels. The team of scientists – Dr Adrienne Paton, Associate Professor Renato Morona and Professor James Paton – showed that mice infected with a highly virulent strain of E. coli ...

Study finds bankruptcy rates among cancer patients increase along with survival time

2011-06-08
CHICAGO — June 6, 2011 — An analysis linking federal bankruptcy court records to cancer registry data from nearly 232,000 adult cancer cases in western Washington during a 14-year period has found a hidden cost to survival: Insolvency rates increase along with the length of survival. "Patients diagnosed with cancer may face significant financial stress due to income loss and out-of-pocket costs associated with their treatment," said Scott Ramsey, M.D., Ph.D., a health care economist and internist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who led the study. "On average, ...

Prolonging life carries more weight

2011-06-08
Los Angeles, CA (May 26, 2011) Doctors are more apt to recommend a more costly therapy to patients if it were determined to prolong the patient's life rather than just improve quality, according to a recent study from Medical Decision Making (published by SAGE). Using a survey of the decision-making process, authors were able obtain data to determine the relative importance oncologists place on quantity of life compared to quality of life in chemotherapy decisions. From this, they found a significant majority of respondents (71.8%) illustrated a greater value they placed ...

Many patients with advanced cancers get treatments that won't help

2011-06-08
A study of more than 1,000 patients with colon cancer that had spread to distant sites found that one in eight was treated with at least one drug regimen that was not recommended. Those patients were exposed to significant risk without proven benefits, at an estimated cost—just for the drugs—of more than $2 million. The study, presented June 7, 2011, by University of Chicago researchers at the American Society for Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Chicago, focused on three chemotherapy regimens that were not supported by evidence from prior clinical studies or clinical ...

33-country survey reports 50 percent increase in sustainably managed tropical forests

2011-06-08
BERN, SWITZERLAND (7 JUNE 2011)—A comprehensive assessment of tropical forest management reports a 50 percent increase in the area of tropical forest under sustainable management in just five years, but cautions that key drivers of that increase—growing demand for certified timber and funding for climate change initiatives—could have only a marginal impact in the long-term. Drawing on detailed data on each of the 33 countries that together control almost all of the world's tropical rainforests and tropical timber production, the report released today by the Japan-based ...

Mapping anemia risk in preschool-age children in West Africa

2011-06-08
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Ricardo Soares Magalhães and Archie Clements, from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, describe how they used national cross-sectional household-based demographic health surveys to map the distribution of anaemia risk in preschool-age children in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Mali. The use of such maps has significant practical implications for targeted control of anaemia in these countries, such as guiding the efficient allocation of nutrient supplements and fortified foods, and contributing to the planning and evaluation of resource ...

Coseasonality of influenza and invasive pneumococcal disease

2011-06-08
Using a combination of sophisticated modelling and statistical analyses, David Fisman and colleagues show that infection with influenza likely increases the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). It is feasible that infection with influenza increases the short-term risk of bacterial invasion in individuals already colonized with Streptococcus pneumoniae (which causes IPD) by increasing the permeability of the lining of the airways to the bacteria. These findings suggest that some cases of IPD could be attributable to influenza, so the extension of influenza ...

Health and safety of low-skilled workers should be priority for migration policy

2011-06-08
In the fourth article in a six-part PLoS Medicine series on migration & health, Joan Benach from the Employment Conditions Network at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues discuss the health risks and policy needs associated with migration to destination countries, especially for low-skilled workers. In destination countries, migrant workers often fill low- or semi-skilled positions in the labour market, which are often characterized by flexibility, insecurity, precarious employment, and long working hours with low pay. Undocumented or "illegal" ...

Finnish twin study yields new information on how fat cells cope with obesity

2011-06-08
The mechanisms by which obesity leads towards metabolic co-morbidities, such as diabetes mellitus, are poorly understood and of great public health interest. A study led by Matej Orešič from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that adaptation of fat cell membranes to obesity may play a key role in the early stages of inflammatory disorders. Millions of adults are diagnosed as obese each year, worldwide. Many of these people suffer from a disorder known as metabolic syndrome, which includes symptoms such as hypertension and elevated blood cholesterol. ...

Apple ingredient keeps muscles strong

2011-06-08
In search of a way to prevent the muscle wasting that comes with illness and aging, researchers have landed a natural compound that might just do the trick. The findings reported in the June issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, identify a component of apple peels as a promising new drug candidate for the widespread and debilitating condition that affects nearly everyone at one time or another. "Muscle wasting is a frequent companion of illness and aging," said Christopher Adams of The University of Iowa, Iowa City. "It prolongs hospitalization, delays ...

Study links insulin action on brain's reward circuitry to obesity

2011-06-08
Researchers reporting in the June issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, have what they say is some of the first solid proof that insulin has direct effects on the reward circuitry of the brain. Mice whose reward centers can no longer respond to insulin eat more and become obese, they show. The findings suggest that insulin resistance might help to explain why those who are obese may find it so difficult to resist the temptation of food and take the weight back off. "Once you become obese or slide into a positive energy balance, insulin resistance in ...
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