Esalen, a leading center for exploring and realizing human potential through experience, education and research, is hosting two special events to culminate the celebration of its 50th Anniversary. The events are "The Best of Esalen: A Movable Feast" which runs from September 30 through October 3rd and "Esalen's 50th Anniversary Benefit Weekend" which begins on October 4 and concludes on October 7. "Our 50th anniversary is a time to renew our pride in Esalen's timeless mission of integral transformation - personal, social, spiritual and cultural-- ...

Kiwi Crate, the creativity company for kids, is pleased to announce that its monthly arts, crafts and science kits for kids ages 3-7 have been named by Dr. Toy as one of the "100 Best Children's Products" of 2012 and as a "Ten Best Creative Product" of 2012, adding to the prestigious list of accolades the company has received less than a year after it was founded. The awards are selected by Stevanne Auerbach, PhD, ("Dr. Toy), one of the world's leading experts on play, toys and children's products. Each year, Dr. Auerbach reviews hundreds of ...

Departing from Gatwick every Monday at 1315hrs, the flight will arrive in Reykjavik at 1525hrs with the return flight departing Reykjavik every Friday at 1620hrs and arriving in to Gatwick at 2020hrs. The A320 aircraft can accommodate 168 passengers on its direct flight between the two cities. Matt Wood, Head of Airline Relations at Gatwick Airport said: "We are delighted to welcome WOW Air and its passengers to the airport today. Reykjavik saw a 12% increase in UK tourists between 2010-11, and we feel that by adding this twice-weekly service we are catering for ...

Style is a crucial part of appearance and what better way to demonstrate it than with a classy watch? The Danish company for designer watches, Uniwatches, is stocking new Festina watches for the upcoming fall. The new selection of Festina watches (interesting to know is that the Danish term is Festina ure) for men as well as for ladies comes in colors suitable for the autumn such as brown with gold, deep red with gold or the classic black and chrome. There is also the option of an all-white watch for the winter. All new Festina watches come with discounts ranging ...

Pampanga's Best is one of the largest Filipino meat processing companies specialized in making cured meat including tocino, tapa, bacon, hot dogs, ham, longaniza sausage, burger patty, meat loaf, etc. Pampanga's Best came up with a formula to cure the meat, it is called tocino. Tocino became so popular that Pampanga's Best came out with more variety of cured meat. Meat marinating was one of the procedures used to tenderize and enhance the taste of meat; therefore, vacuum massage tumbler was needed to do the job. Pampanga's Best met JAW FENG at a tradeshow and tried out ...

It's a difficult time for the world economy. The OECD has reported that world trade volumes are shrinking. Despite this there is a big, new, opportunity for suppliers of goods and services willing to trade internationally. The world's sixth biggest and third fastest growing large economy has opened up for trade and investment. Exporters have a new place to go. Russia finally joined the World Trade Organization on 23rd August opening up major opportunities for exporters seeking new buyers and service companies able to invest in delivering their services in Russia. Two weeks ...

This dramatic new retail space incorporates a number of innovative features and travel retail 'firsts' and has been designed to deliver an exceptional in store experience for the passenger and the very best customer engagement for brand partners. Commenting on the new store, Jose Maria Palencia, CEO of World Duty Free Group said, "We are very pleased with what is our largest and most innovative walkthrough store within the World Duty Free Group and we are absolutely delighted with the customer response and growth in sales that we have experienced". Stewart ...

The International Space Station's current studies on fluid physics in microgravity are leading to rapid advances in the field, and on May 24, these investigations are part of a noteworthy milestone. A half a century ago, only four months after John Glenn's historic Friendship 7 flight, the first U.S. fluid physics space investigation took place aboard Aurora 7, the second orbital Mercury flight made by Scott Carpenter. This experiment addressed a critical question for human space flight. How do fluids behave without the presence of Earth's gravity? Scientists wondered, ...

Jose Canseco gives an insider point of view of what it's like to be a sports superstar and celebrity. In his latest, exciting video blog for Steroid.com, Jose Canseco candidly discusses the insider view of what it was like for him to become famous as a baseball superstar. With a personal touch and total vulnerability, Canseco discusses his surprised emotional state of being called up to the majors from the AAA league... "I was in shock. I was...a nineteen year old kid. I was extremely nervous...and basically in shock to be called up to the actual major leagues. ...

With fall approaching, Bruegger's Bagels is adding new menu items perfect for the crisp days, including new bagel flavors inspired by the season and a spicy new breakfast sandwich sure to warm up a cool morning. The season also marks the return of Bruegger's most popular harvest - pumpkin-flavored cream cheese and coffee. In August, eager Bruegger's Facebook fans were already asking about the annual return of pumpkin-flavored menu items, with one fan commenting, "When will the Pumpkin Cream Cheese be in season? It's my favorite!" Not to disappoint, Bruegger's ...

Over the next few weeks, an ER-2 high altitude research aircraft operating out of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., will take part in the development of two future satellite instruments. The aircraft will fly test models of these instruments at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet to gather information researchers can use to develop ways to handle data future spaceborne versions will collect. NASA Wallops will be the temporary home of one of NASA's ER-2 research aircraft. The ER-2 from NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., ...

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken one of the first detailed looks into how Alzheimer's disease disrupts coordination among several of the brain's networks. The results, reported in The Journal of Neuroscience, include some of the earliest assessments of Alzheimer's effects on networks that are active when the brain is at rest. "Until now, most research into Alzheimer's effects on brain networks has either focused on the networks that become active during a mental task, or the default mode network, the primary network that activates ...

Many species of fruit fly lack the ability to adapt effectively to predicted increases in global temperatures and may face extinction in the near future, according to new research. In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Monash University, The University of Melbourne and Danish collaborators showed that many species of fruit fly appear to be constrained within an evolutionary straitjacket and can't readily adapt to climate change-related temperature increases. Dr Vanessa Kellermann from Monash University's School ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Sept. 18, 2012) -- An interdisciplinary team of scientists from seven U.S. institutions says a disregard of three critical protocols, including sorting samples by size, explains why a group challenging the theory of a North American meteor-impact event some 12,900 years ago failed to find iron- and silica-rich magnetic particles in the sites they investigated. Not separating samples of the materials into like-sized groupings made for an avoidable layer of difficulty, said co-author Edward K. Vogel, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. The ...

Geneva, 18 September 2012 – Agreement by governments, by the end of 2012, on a set of ambitious global targets to curb the growing scourge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which includes cardiovascular disease (CVD; heart disease and stroke), is critical to avoiding the millions of premature deaths worldwide. This, according to a new paper published by the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce a group of eminent experts who represent five leading heart-health organizations. On the occasion of the first anniversary of the second ever United Nations High-Level Meeting ...

NEW YORK, September 18, 2012 – Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have revealed a significant association between obesity and children and adolescents with higher concentrations of urinary bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic chemical recently banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from sippy cups and baby bottles. Still, the chemical continues to be used in aluminum cans, such as those containing soda. The study appears in the September 19 issue of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), dedicated to the theme of obesity. "This is the first ...

HEIDELBERG, 18 September 2012 – The absence of a specific type of neuron in the brain can lead to obesity and diabetes in mice report researchers in The EMBO Journal. The outcome, however, depends on the type of diet that the animals are fed. A lack of AgRP-neurons, brain cells known to be involved in the control of food intake, leads to obesity if mice are fed a regular carbohydrate diet. However, animals that are deficient in AgRP-neurons but which are raised on a high-fat diet are leaner and healthier. The differences are due to the influence of the AgRP-neurons on ...

NEW YORK – In a nationally representative sample of nearly 3,000 children and adolescents, those who had higher concentrations of urinary bisphenol A (BPA), a manufactured chemical found in consumer products, had significantly increased odds of being obese, according to a study in the September 19 issue of JAMA, and theme issue on obesity. Leonardo Trasande, M.D., M.P.P., of the NYU School of Medicine, New York City, presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing. "In the U.S. population, exposure [to BPA] is nearly ubiquitous, with 92.6 percent of persons ...

NEW YORK – Severely obese patients who had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery had significant weight loss that was sustained for an average of 6 years after the surgery and also experienced frequent remission and lower incidence of diabetes, hypertension, and abnormal cholesterol levels, compared to participants who did not have the surgery, according to a study in the September 19 issue of JAMA, and theme issue on obesity. Ted D. Adams, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the University of Utah School of Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, presented the findings of the ...

NEW YORK – Addressing the obesity epidemic by preventing excess calorie consumption with government regulation of portion sizes is justifiable and could be an effective measure to help prevent obesity-related health problems and deaths, according to a Viewpoint in the September 19 issue of JAMA, and theme issue on obesity. Thomas A. Farley, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, presented the article at a JAMA media briefing. "Americans consume many more calories than needed, and the excess is leading to diabetes, cardiovascular ...

NEW YORK – Obese adults with excess visceral fat (fat located inside the abdominal cavity, around the body's internal organs) and biomarkers of insulin resistance had an associated increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, while obese individuals with higher amounts of total body fat and subcutaneous fat (underneath the skin) did not have this increased risk, according to a study in the September 19 issue of JAMA, and theme issue on obesity. James A. de Lemos, M.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, presented the findings ...

DALLAS – Sept. 18, 2012 – Obese individuals with excess visceral fat (abdominal fat that surrounds the body’s internal organs) have an increased risk for the development of Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center. By contrast, persons with excess abdominal subcutaneous fat (fat underneath the skin) were not at higher risk for the onset of diabetes. The study, published in the September obesity-themed issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is one of the largest of its kind to assess a multiethnic population ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Twenty minutes of daily, vigorous physical activity over just three months can reduce a child's risk of diabetes as well as his total body fat - including dangerous, deep abdominal fat – but 40 minutes works even better, researchers report. "If exercise is good for you, then more exercise ought to be better for you and that is what we found for most of our outcomes," said Dr. Catherine Davis, clinical health psychologist at the Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Georgia Health Sciences University. Pediatric and adult studies have shown the ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Obesity is a major contributor to heart disease that substantially hinders the disease's proper diagnosis and treatment, says a cardiologist researching the impact of obesity and weight loss on the heart. With obese youth as the fastest-growing demographic group, the country's problem is only going to get worse, said Dr. Sheldon Litwin, a preventive cardiologist and Chief of the Medical College of Georgia Section of Cardiology at Georgia Health Sciences University. About half of Litwin's patients at GHS Health System have obesity-related heart disease, ...

September 18, 2012, Shenzhen, China – BGI Tech Solutions Co., Ltd. (the "BGI Tech"), a subsidiary company of BGI, announced today that they have achieved whole exome sequencing analysis of total degraded DNA as low as 200 ng from formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples. This advancement enables researchers to efficiently uncover the genetic information from FFPE disease samples such as cancers and infectious diseases, with the advantages of high reliability, accuracy and fast turnaround time. FFPE samples are the most common biological materials for disease diagnoses ...