Bali visitors will be able to take part in a competitive and challenging race event this June when the Biznet Bali International Triathlon is held once again. Marking the sixth edition of the annual athletics challenge, this year's triathlon takes place on June 24th and sees participants competing in a number of events, all set against the backdrop of a scenic Bali landscape. An Olympic-distance course allows committed competitors to take a 1.5 km swim in Jimabaran Bay before embarking on a 40 km bike ride through hilly paved roads, culminating in a 10 km flat run ...

Singapore is set to become a hotbed for arts and creativity during the family-friendly Ace! Festival 2012, an event that brings together international talents for a joyous 24-day programme of performances. Running from May 18th to June 10th 2012, the festival encompasses a total of 135 shows that are designed to promote and inspire creativity and artistry among youngsters and their parents. This year's programme includes productions of several family favourites, such as The Little Mermaid, Hakim and the Giant Turtle, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and Just So?, ...

Amateur athletes and world-famous runners alike will participate in a memorable skyscraper race event this June at the annual Standard Chartered Taipei 101 Run Up Race. This year's edition will take place on June 10th and will once again see thousands of competitors running up 91 floors of the monolithic Taipei 101 building, comprising a total of 2,046 steps. Sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank, the event is open both to ordinary people looking for a unique challenge and to well-known professional runners such as New Zealand's Melissa Moon, who has confirmed she ...

Thailand's Chiang Rai region has become a fruit lover's paradise this month, with the annual Pineapple Nang Lae and Lin Chee Chiang Rai Festival running throughout May. The festival will see competitions and markets held in multiple locations across the province and will be focused on two of its most famous exports - the lin chee fruit, also known as the lychee, and the Nang Lae pineapple. Chiang Rai is known for producing the most plentiful and highest quality lychees in Thailand, with almost 16,000 tonnes of fruits grown in 18 districts, while the Nang Lae pineapple ...

Fishers Products officially announced Monday that it acquired ChunkyBling.com, a retailer of beaded watch bands, and other beaded jewelry. Fishers Products currently operates two other web-based jewelry properties including PurityRingsOnline.com and eChristianJewelry.com, making the acquisition an ideal move for the company. ChunkyBling.com was founded in 2009 by previous owners Doug and Laurel Hatch. The company initially offered beaded watch bands and faces to meet a growing demand from a large female customer base. As the company continued to grow, other products ...

This Father's Day astonish your dad with a gift basket designed by you. Just imagine how impressed your dad will be when he sees that you spent the time and effort to think of him by building a Father's Day gift just for him. The great benefit of giving your dad a gift basket is that you can tailor your gift content choices and container around your dad's hobbies and interests. If your dad lives out of town, order your hobby themed Father's Day gift basket online from the large collection of gifts for dad at Arttowngifts.com. Father's Day is Sunday, June17th, 2012. Start ...

After one of the largest IPOs in history, cleanfinancial.com has launched a guide to spread betting on the value of Facebook shares. The new cleanfinancial.com covers where investors can speculate on the share price and which companies offer a free Demo account so investors can practice speculating on Facebook. The guide also discusses where investors can access live Facebook share price charts as well as a fully worked trading example. According to cleanfinancial.com editor, Jenna Cutly, many investors will be interested in speculating on Facebook but they may have ...

The aim of the book - Forgotten Secrets of Natural Conception - How your Mind Affects your Fertility by Martina Pangrazzi is to help couples better understand how their behaviour affects their fertility. Through analysis of true stories of conception, including the author's own, Pangrazzi takes the readers on a journey to show them how they can help themselves and how they can find out what's available 'out there' and 'in there' in order to achieve a miracle. We are struggling to have children despite the fact that it is one of the most natural things to happen. Instead ...

One of New York's funniest and most acclaimed stage shows is set to wow Filipino crowds this month with the Manila debut of the award-winning Forbidden Broadway.   The comedy spectacular will be performed by a talented cast at the Carlos Romulo Auditorium and is set to run until May 27th 2012, coming off the back of more than 9,000 performances in venues across the world.   Created by Gerard Alessandrini, the show features songs from popular musicals such as Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia! and Wicked, with rewritten lyrics that affectionately satirise ...

Bangkok will once again be the venue for the Asia International Guitar Festival and Competition this June, bringing some of the world's top guitar players to the Thai capital. To be held at the Siam City Hotel, the event runs from June 14th to 17th and will incorporate a number of performances, concerts and recitals by talented performers, as well as exhibitions and masterclass sessions. Featured artists this year include Aniello Desiderio from Italy, Koki Fujimoto of Japan, the Wong-Kojorn Guitar Quartet from Thailand and the University of the Philippines Guitar ...

Coastal Range Systems (www.coastalrange.ca), an SAP channel partner, announced today Castagra Products, Inc. is its latest customer to deploy the SAP Business One application. With offices across Canada and in the United States, Coastal Range Systems will manage and complete the implementation from its Burnaby, BC office. Castagra Products focuses on producing and delivering eco-friendly coating solutions for the oil, gas, and marine industries in North America. The company's solutions are produced using a renewable vegetable oil and a non-toxic mineral, creating a "veggie ...

The enforcement of Law 42/2010, which extends the smoking ban to public places, has accompanied a progressive reduction in the percentage of smokers (from 40.3% to 35.3%) and in consumption amongst the working population. This decline applies to men and women of all ages and occupations. SINC A pioneering study, carried out by the Society of Prevention of Ibermutuamur (accidents and diseases mutual insurance for Social Security professionals) analysed the consumption of tobacco in the working populating during the first months of application of Law 42/2010. This law ...

Coca-Cola Refreshments has announced that it will open 800 jobs for veterans across the country. According to a press release published by The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch.com, this adds to the over 5,500 veterans that the company has already employed. Dr. Gordon T. Austin, a Navy veteran and award-winning dentist, applauds the efforts of Coca-Cola Refreshments to support United States veterans. Dr. Gordon T. Austin is encouraging other companies to recognize the skill sets that veterans offer, and the value that these skills hold. Steve Cahillane, the President ...

Alexandria, VA – In 2010, the world reached a milestone: The number of people living in urban areas reached 50 percent. This monumental shift from rural to urban living comes with consequences. Growing urban populations will have to learn to efficiently deal with increased demands for energy, transportation, sanitation, food and water while balancing the environmental impacts of such densely populated regions. Currently, 75 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels come from cities, which cover just 3 percent of Earth's land surface. As megacities continue ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (May 22, 2012) – Potentially severe hypersensitivity reactions to the anti-HIV drug abacavir occur through an autoimmune mechanism, resulting from the creation of drug-induced immunogens that are attacked by the body's immune system, according to a study published online by the journal AIDS, official journal of the International AIDS Society. AIDS is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The study is the first to explain how hypersensitivity reactions to abacavir develop in genetically predisposed patients—and suggests ...

A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world. Associate Professor Daniel Janies, Ph.D., an expert in computational genomics at the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University (OSU), is working with software engineers at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to expand the reach of SUPRAMAP (supramap.org), a web-based application that synthesizes large, diverse datasets so that researchers can better understand ...

Periodontists routinely grow bone in the mouth to guarantee a stable environment for teeth and tooth implants. But whether it's better to build up bone before placing the implant, or to simply place the implant and allow bone to grow around it, has been a subject of considerable medical debate. Now Prof. Zvi Artzi of Tel Aviv University's Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dentistry at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine has completed a study that concludes the two-step method is the more effective alternative — building bone first, then implanting and allowing ...

WASHINGTON – Many of the wrongful convictions identified in a report this week hinged on a misidentified culprit — and a new report in a top journal on psychological science reveals the paradox of reforms in eyewitness identification procedure. In our efforts to make sure that good guys don't get locked up, we could let more bad guys go. In the May issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, leading scholars in psychology and the law explore and debate various aspects of eyewitness identification procedures, ...

Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a microfluidic chip to test for latent tuberculosis. They hope the test will be cheaper, faster and more reliable than current testing for the disease. "Our assay is cheaper, reusable, and gives results in real time," said Ying Liu, a research specialist working with Professor Alexander Revzin in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering. The team has already conducted testing of blood samples from patients in China and the United States. About one-third of the world's population is infected with the bacteria ...

According to an article from TechNewsDaily, recent Match.com survey results showed that key moments in a relationship are happening sooner rather than later. Researchers from The Kinsey Institute and the Institute for Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton University helped lead the study for Match.com. After looking at the findings, Mate1.com, an online dating service, agreed that timing is vital, especially in today's singles scene where daters are connecting constantly The survey addressed key moments in the various stages of a relationship, starting with the post-date ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Antibodies that help to stop the HIV virus have been found in breast milk. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center isolated the antibodies from immune cells called B cells in the breast milk of infected mothers in Malawi, and showed that the B cells in breast milk can generate neutralizing antibodies that may inhibit the virus that causes AIDS. HIV-1 can be transmitted from mother to child via breastfeeding, posing a challenge for safe infant feeding practices in areas of high HIV-1 prevalence. But only one in 10 HIV-infected nursing mothers is known ...

While it is hardly unusual for families to live on tight budgets, many families have found those budgets growing even tighter in recent years. After an extended period of economic tumult, recovery is beginning to happen slowly but surely--just as gasoline prices see major spikes. All of these factors have left parents and families looking to cut costs like never before, and a new report highlights one way in which families are doing just that--by purchasing clothing not from designer clothing boutiques or name-brand stores, but from consignment stores. Families across the ...

AMHERST, Mass. – New fish-tagging studies of young bluefin tuna in Atlantic waters off New England by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are offering the first fishery-independent, year-round data on dispersal patterns and habitat use for the popular game fish. The availability of miniaturized pop-up satellite tags suitable for smaller (two- to five-year-old) fish helped make the research possible. Fisheries oceanographer Molly Lutcavage and lead author Benjamin Galuardi say the work shows that scientists now have tools to directly observe bluefin ...

Total Mortgage Services, LLC, a leading national mortgage lender, announced an expansion of its Milford, CT headquarters. Total Mortgage has added an additional two thousand square-foot of office space which will house the company's senior leadership. The new space is part of the same building complex where Total Mortgage's origination and operation centers are located. Total Mortgage now occupies more than 10,000 square feet of office space at its headquarters on West Main Street in Milford, CT as well as other regional offices. "We have been part of the City of ...

Trumpet Marketing, a Maryland-based graphic design and Internet marketing company has launched a new initiative to assist local small businesses with developing new business through Internet mediums including websites, blogs and social media. On Monday, President, Barack Obama proclaimed this week as National Small Business Week. He has called upon all us to recognize the contributions of small businesses citing the importance of small businesses to the competitiveness of the American economy. "We couldn't agree more!" says Jim Williams, president of Trumpet ...