Bangkok visitors will be able to take part in the 14th Charity Midnight Run this October, which is being sponsored by hotel chain Amari and BMW Thailand.   The event is the only midnight race to take place in the Thai capital, with the 2011 edition to be held on the evening of Saturday October 8th.   Participants can choose to compete in a 6 km or 12 km race, with more than 5,000 competitors expected to take part in total, including both locals and foreign entrants.   Winners of each category, including male and female, family team and fancy dress team brackets, will ...

Visitors to Phuket in October will be able to enjoy a performance by some top comedians from the UK at the Phuket Punchline Comedy Club.   On October 19th, the venue will play host to a show that includes performances from comics including Gordon Southern, Ian Coppinger and Andre King.   Experienced stand-up Southern has been in high demand since the 1990s and was the winner of a Time Out Comedy award in 1995, while Irish funnyman Coppinger is the co-founder of the Dublin Comedy Improv.   Meanwhile, New Zealander King is a veteran of the Kiwi comedy circuit and also ...

Phuket will play host to Splash, a leisure and lifestyle show incorporating a range of different events, in October 2011. To be held on October 22nd from 13:00 local time, the show will entertain attendees with a number of cultural performances, interactive events and competitions for the whole family to enjoy. Among them will be a beachwear fashion show, a Muay Thai boxing display, a traditional Thai cultural dance show and a mountain climbing demonstration, as well as live music performances. Elsewhere, visitors can enjoy an exhibition of motorcycles - which ...

Thailand visitors will be able to witness a memorable cultural event at the Phon Lak Phra Festival, which will be held in Phatthalung this October. An annual celebration to mark the Chak Phra Buddhist ritual, which falls on the first day of the waning moon in the eleventh month each year, it is being held to mark the approaching end of Buddhist Lent. The festival will see Buddha images from local temples placed on a gilded open-sided throne called a busbok and carried through the town, with the Provincial Hall and Saensuklampam Beach forming the centre point of ...

Experienced athletes will be putting themselves to the test in Malaysia this October via the annual Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon. Described by the organisers as the toughest mountain race in the world, the event will be held on October 22nd and 23rd and will challenge participants to race up and down the peak - a total distance of 21 km - in as short a time as possible. This is no mean feat, as the mountain - which is located in the tropical Kinabalu Park - is 4,095m high and ranks as the second tallest peak in south-east Asia. The Climbathon has ...

Seoul is to play host to a unique musical event this October with the return of the Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF). Taking place at the Jayu Theater venue in Seoul Arts Center, the event is one of the biggest electro-acoustic music festivals in Asia and is currently in its 18th successful year. It will aim to showcase a range of cutting-edge music created using computers, music technology and multimedia tools, with categories including taped and live performances, electro-acoustic music with instruments and audiovisual media art. At last ...

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Trion:Z, manufacturer of award winning magnetic and negative ion technology, proudly announced today that Trion:Z professional golf staff team member Brittany Lincicome wore her favorite Trion:Z Magtitan Palette Bracelet as she claimed her second LPGA victory of the 2011 golf season. Lincicome clinched the Canadian Open title with a final round two-under par 70. With wind, rain, and a soggy Hillsdale Golf Course, Lincicome managed to keep her fellow Americans behind her by one stroke. It wasn't easy but her skill and relaxed disposition proved critical on the last hole. ...

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People visiting Bali in October 2011 will be given a chance to interact with leading international authors at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.   The annual event, which is now in its eighth year, will be taking place in the Ubud region and will see 125 different writers convening to give a series of talks, lectures and workshops on their craft.   Writers from all corners of the globe - from up-and-coming authors to established names - will be taking part, including participants from China, the US, France, Japan, Egypt, Australia and South Africa, as well as local ...

Cincinnati, Ohio immigration lawyer Jonathan Bartell recently won and overturned a criminal case for a non-citizen who pleaded guilty to a trafficking and drug offense. Bartell, a family immigration lawyer who also serves as a H1B attorney, specializes in defending clients with immigration issues including obtaining a H1B visa, and negotiates for lesser penalties for criminal offenses. "There are not many guys that do both," said Bartell of fighting charges ranging from drunk driving to murder and fraud. On Aug. 12, he reopened a case and changed the guilty ...

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Dr. Matt DiDuro, Alpharetta auto accident doctor, of Health Choice Chiropractic Center is pleased to introduce his new and easy to use practice website. The professional website was launched in order to increase awareness and improve patient education surrounding chiropractic health. Health Choice Chiropractic Center is operated by Dr. Matt DiDuro, a highly qualified chiropractor in Johns Creek. Specializing in a wide array of chiropractic care, this full-service practice offers services for traumatic injuries, arthritis, anti-aging and preventative medicines, sleep ...

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Premier Cape Coral and Ft. Myers dentist, Dr. Mauricio Martinez, has joined patients on social media sites - Facebook and Twitter - for improved communication. The Facebook and Twitter pages were created to allow patients to easily access more valuable information about the practice, in addition to communicating with other patients about their previous procedures and visits to Gulf Coast Smiles. With the recent addition of the new Facebook and Twitter pages, patients have the ability to gain important information regarding services, Dr. Martinez, updates on the practice ...

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Darla O'Brien, owner of Designer Fitness, was honored at the 2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention in Los Angeles with a Fitness Challenge Award. As an IDEA Challenge Award recipient, O'Brien was presented with a medal and special recognition at the convention, which was attended by over 5,000 fitness experts from 52 countries. She was also granted substantial opportunities to meet with the convention's celebrity presenters, including Elaine LaLanne, who was given an award honoring her late husband, Jack; Dr. Daniel Amen, author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your ...

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Researchers at the University of Bath have combined genetic data with mathematical modelling to provide insights into cells and how they differentiate. The findings, to be published in open-access journal PLoS Genetics on September 1st, demonstrate the utility of a systems biology approach and could have implications for understanding and treating diseases, including cancers, caused when cells start to function incorrectly. All cells derive from multipotent precursor cells (stem cells). The mechanisms by which stably differentiated cell-types are generated from stem ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke University Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have demonstrated an approach to HIV vaccine design that uses an altered form of HIV's outer coating or envelope protein. The researchers showed that they could design HIV envelopes that could bind better to immature B cell receptors to create an enhanced immune response in an animal model. Immature B cells are the targets of vaccines, and when strongly targeted, they produce strong vaccine responses. The work of the Duke team was to improve ...