Soccer Parents looking for fun summer activities are helping propel North America into the world leader in beach soccer tournaments, one of the fastest growing trends in sports. With one of the planet's largest inhabitable coastlines, beach soccer tournaments are popping up across the United States from Santa Cruz, California to Brigantine Beach, New Jersey. The 2012 beach soccer season features one hundred and five tournaments nation-wide, with the majority located in California and the North East. The popularity of the beach soccer has been growing rapidly in the ...

A new exhibition of Edvard Munch's paintings is now open at the Tate Modern in London, where art lovers will be encouraged to reconsider their views of the Norwegian artist. Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye attempts to highlight the 20th century influences of the painter, who was born in 1863 and died in 1944. Munch, best known for his 1893 work The Scream, has traditionally been portrayed as an artist whose work is best understood in the context of 19th century symbolism and pre-expressionism. However, the Tate Modern's display attempts to trace the impact of 20th ...

American jazz artist Esperanza Spalding will bring her award-winning talents to Barcelona's Teatre Grec later this month. The 27-year-old performer from Portland, Oregon is due to appear at the open air venue on Monday July 23rd as part of this summer's Grec Festival of Barcelona. Spalding's prodigious talents as a bassist and singer saw her become the first ever jazz musician to win the Grammy Award for best new artist in 2011, allowing her to follow in the footsteps of established stars such as Adele, Amy Winehouse and Alicia Keys. Her 2008 album Esperanza spent ...

Charlotte Church is set to play live in York later this month.   The 26-year-old star recently hit the road to perform new material and has appeared on stage at a number of small festivals, including the Rock Oyster Festival in Cornwall and Blissfields in Hampshire.   Fans hoping to hear Church's latest songs in a more intimate setting could head to the York gig, which will take place at Fibbers on Saturday July 28th.   After a period out of the spotlight, the Welsh songstress is aiming to re-launch her music career this summer. It is nearly two years since Church's ...

The sands of Watergate Bay near Newquay will provide the venue of the first ever Electric Beach Festival on Saturday July 28th. Iconic US hip-hop act De La Soul have signed up to headline the one-day event, which is expected to attract roughly 2,500 revellers to the Cornish coast. With the likes of The Nextmen, The Scribes, Backbeat Soundsystem and The Breaks Collective also due to perform, the festival's inaugural edition looks set to be a memorable occasion. De La Soul have stood among hip-hop's most celebrated acts since the New York trio's debut album 3 Feet ...

Dr Seuss's classic children's book The Cat in the Hat is set to be transported to the stage in Singapore by the Little Theatre Company (LTC). Published in 1957, the book is the first to feature the title character, a mischievous cat who attempts to entertain two children by performing a series of bizarre tricks. More than 11 million copies of The Cat in the Hat have been printed and the book has been translated into several languages, including Latin and Yiddish. The story has been developed into a witty family-friendly play by the National Theatre of Great Britain, ...

The PGI Bali Junior Golf Series and Championship Cup will return to the Indonesian island in early August, with talented young golfers from across the country set to battle it out for top honours. Set to take place at the Bali Handara Country Club on Sunday August 5th, the tournament is open to girls and boys in four age categories - 15 to 17, 13 to 14, 11 to 12, and ten years and under. Prizes will be available to the first-place finisher and runner-up across all divisions. Admission to the tournament costs 400,000 rupiahs (GBP27.25) for non-Bali Junior Golf Committee ...

Heineken presents Sensation Thailand, billed as the world's leading dance event, will see revellers flock to watch top DJs take to the decks in Bangkok. The Sensation series commenced in Amsterdam in 2000, when 20,000 clubbers packed out the Amsterdam Arena for a night of revelry. The following year, the number of attendees doubled and since then, the event has continued to grow. On Saturday August 18th, the show will head to Bangkok for the first time, treating party-goers to the impressive Ocean of White spectacle. Premiering in Amsterdam in 2008, the Ocean of ...

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (HKRT) is gearing up to present its latest production, I Have a Date with Autumn, as part of the company's 35th anniversary celebration. The show is a sequel to I Have a Date with Spring, which first hit the stage two decades ago and was highly successful, performing strongly at the box office and attracting widespread acclaim from critics. It tells the story of Danny, a celebrated musician struggling for motivation and neglecting those around him as a result of a lost romance. "Little did he know that in the shadowed corner away ...

One of Thailand's oldest cultural events, the Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival, will return to the south-east Asian nation in the coming weeks. The celebration will mark its 111th anniversary when it takes place this year in the eastern Thai city of Ubon Ratchathani, which is located in the south-east of the Isan region on the Mun River. As the area prepares for the Buddhist period of Lent, the men of the region sculpt and mould special candles, which are paraded through the middle of the city on decorative floats. The procession extends for 1.5 km and takes several ...

Avid foodies visiting Kuala Lumpur in the coming weeks should be sure to explore the city's Ramadan Bazaar. To mark the Muslim month of fasting, bazaars and market stalls spring up across Malaysia offering a huge selection of traditional delicacies. Although Ramadan Bazaars can be found throughout Malaysia, some of the best are located in the nation's capital at locations such as the Central Market, Bukit Bintang and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a major road running from Chow Kit to Jalan Tun Perak. Visitors to the bazaars can expect to be offered Malaysian fare ...

HubShout, an industry leading SEO reseller firm, will offer a webinar on Thursday, July 12 at 3 PM EDT. The webinar theme is "Getting Started as an SEO Reseller" and it's free to the SEO community. HubShout CEO, Chad Hill and President, Adam Stetzer, Ph.D. will co-present the webinar. Hill and Stetzer will use HubShout's white label SEO software to demonstrate the SEO reseller process. In the webinar, Hill and Stetzer will discuss how entrepreneurs can take advantage of the growing online marketing industry and explain how to set up an efficient SEO reseller ...

Irish alternative rockers Snow Patrol are heading to The Philippines in August to play a concert at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila. The band formed in Scotland in 1994 and released two albums - Songs for Polarbears and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up - before enjoying mainstream success with their third LP, Final Straw. Containing the hit singles Run, Chocolate and How to Be Dead, the album was certified five times platinum in the UK and went on to sell more than three million copies worldwide. Snow Patrol followed up Final Straw with the release of ...

Satish Modi, M.D., F.R.C.S. (C) of Seeta Eye Centers commented on his initial experience with the Alcon LensSx Femtosecond for bladeless cataract surgery. "I have been doing cataract surgery for 30 years now and can honestly say that I am a good cataract surgeon-but as any surgeon will tell you, we humans are not 'on' EVERY time we operate-the femtosecond laser IS, every time." The integration of the femtosecond laser to assist in cataract surgery and lens implants offers the promise of allowing the refinement of the many skill intensive steps of cataract removal ...

Additives that are stable to bacterial degradation and hard water salts, for example, are more difficult to treat but promote longer tank life of metalworking fluids, thereby requiring less frequent disposal. Metalworking lubricants are used in the metal stamping process for cleaning, stability, and to ensure lubrication and rust protection. Metalworking fluid evaluation is often assessed by the amount of waste disposal. The less waste produced, the lower the disposal costs will be for metalworking companies. Bigelow Components uses metalworking fluid additives that minimize ...

LoansForMainStreet.com has officially launched their new website. Too many small business owners don't know where to turn after being declined for a bank loan. Worse yet, a lot of alternative lenders have the same underwriting requirements as a bank. Main Street just doesn't seem to have financing options anymore, or do they? LoansForMainStreet.com was created with one goal in mind, to help small to mid-size retail establishments obtain capital. There are literally hundreds of micro lenders in New York City, but few of them have the marketing reach of a big firm. LoansForMainStreet.com ...

Red Ten NYC, a growing direct marketing and outsource sales company, discovered that with having a business mentor to help the managing director with important business decisions has helped the company do all the right things to grow and become a strong competitor in this aggressive field. Regardless of this, "more than two fifths (42 percent) of those running owner-managed businesses have never used the services of a personal business mentor or coach," according to a survey conducted by accountants Moore and Smalley. For new business owners, knowing exactly what ...

The site for the development of new homes in Scotland is owned by BAE systems and is the former site of The Royal Ordnance Factory which is located in the south-west of Renfrewshire in Scotland. The brown field site was used for industrial purposes and during the last century the factory manufactured munitions, however the factory and land has remained disused for many years. The site covers approximately 2371 acres and is set in a rural location close to the village of Bishopton. A consortium of leading house builders will take part in the first phase of the development ...

Acclaimed international photographer Olivia Barrionuevo's latest work will be featured at The Avenue 50 Studio through August 5 with an opening reception on July 14. Barrionuevo captures the soul of the ancient Maya and Aztec civilizations in her latest exhibit, Espejos, where "The Ancient Mexicans" project is presented. Along with her award-winning photographs, international exhibition and published work, Barrionuevo was recently featured in a single exhibition by the General Mexican Consulate. Her work was also recently featured in Time Square as part of ...

There might be times when taxpayers are not able to pay their taxes on time due to unavoidable circumstances or financial constraints. At such times, IRS programs help taxpayers pay back the tax amount owed with ease. Tax Defense Network's tax attorneys share its grading system, which ranks the most popular IRS programs from easiest to hardest to be accepted into. 1. Installment Agreement - Easiest Taxpayers can pay back the tax debt amount in monthly installments according to their income, monthly expenses and duration of payment timeline. 2. Partial Payment ...

The success and growth of Northstar Consulting Group has led to four new assistant manager positions. Each individual placed have shown Bart Yates, Northstar Consulting Groups CEO, they are hard-working and determined individuals who want to teach others how to be successful. Mentoring and coaching a group of people is one of the most important parts of a business because they are able to bounce ideas off one another, point their team in the right direction, help them on decisions with most important issues, and assist them through stressful and challenging times. Progression ...

The House of Dancing Water has opened in Macau following five years of development. Italian-Belgian theatre director Franco Dragone, whose shows have been seen by more than 65 million people across the world, created the production for Macau's City of Dreams at a cost of $250 million (GBP159 million). The show is set in a purpose-built theatre featuring a swimming pool that holds 3.7 million gallons of water - equivalent to five Olympic-sized pools. According to the promoters, The House of Dancing Water is an epic love story complete with dazzling costumes, breathtaking ...

Avid foodies will be flocking to Taipei in August to attend the 2012 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition. Organised by the Chinese Gourmet Association and the Taiwan Culinary Exhibition Organizing Committee, the event will explore the signature dishes and treats from the cities of Tainan, Lugang and Wanhua. Visitors will be given an insight into the culture and history of each of these locations, which have a major influence on Taiwan's cuisine, commerce and politics. Also at the exhibition will be a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive food of Taiwan's east coast, ...

Nutrilys Del Mar in San Diego is helping people keep their skin safe this summer with its natural and organic marine-based supplements. While families flock to the beach or settle into their poolside lounge chairs, they're finding the best solar defense is a tri-combination of sunscreen, shark liver oil and salmon oil supplements. "Applying sunscreen every few hours is challenging and this is why so many families still return back home or to their hotel room with sunburns," says Thierry Lerond, founder and chief executive officer of Nutrilys Del Mar. "And ...

Located in the power and light district of downtown Kansas City, The Hilton President is setting a new standard. Committed to providing their most sensitive travelers with confidence and peace of mind, the Hilton President located in Kansas City is setting a new standard by offering 10 new PURE Rooms. These rooms located on the ninth and tenth floor create an allergy friendly environment by removing 98-100% of bacteria and viruses and up to 99% of allergens. Guests, especially those who suffer from allergies and asthma, can now enjoy the freshest air in their rooms and ...