Kristin Buie, communications manager of North Carolina Theatre (http://www.nctheatre.com), has announced that the organization will be hosting two five-week audition boot camps for upcoming productions of Oliver! and Legally Blonde: The Musical. Each class will focus on preparing aspiring actors for the vocal training, choreography and quick-study techniques necessary for NC Theatre auditions. Participants will have audition priority for roles in both productions, but roles are not guaranteed. Oliver! audition boot camps will take place on Thursdays from Feb. 2 to March ...

Mob eCommerce, a Contus Support Product, launched last month was honored with the "Award of Excellence 2011". Mob eCommerce was presented with the award at the eCommerce meet "E-Spark 2011" hosted by yourstory.in. The eCommerce meet was organized to provide a platform to all eCommerce entrepreneurs and was India's largest showcase for eCommerce Start Ups. The recognition marks the top 12 eCommerce start up in India among the 227 registered. The awards are designed to promote the eCommerce space in India, encouraging the eCommerce start ups to redefine ...

The survival guide for Canadian winters, if there was such a thing, would probably consist of a massive shopping list. From winter tires to mittens, Canadians find their wallets shrinking every year as soon as the first snow storm hits. However, one thing that will help Canadians put a little money back into their pockets is Twin Draft Guard . Northern Response International Ltd. ("Northern Response") introduced Twin Draft Guard to Canada to help keep the season warm and toasty. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, excess air leakage in homes can increase ...

Senior Pastor Andy Thompson, founder of World Overcomers Christian Church (http://www.wocconline.org), a nondenominational church serving worshippers in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park community, has announced that the church is inviting the public to three Christmas Day services, taking place on the regular Sunday worship times at 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday, Dec. 25 at 2933 South Miami Blvd., Ste. 107 to 114, in Durham. The church's praise and worship team, Frontline, will sing original selections from their 2011 Christmas album, "You Are the King," ...

CD-adapco proudly announces its participation in an upcoming episode of Business Update. This segment of Business Update will focus on how engineering simulation is changing the way aerospace and defense products are tested and evaluated. Instead of constructing laborious and expensive physical tests, engineering simulation allows products to be tested in a virtual environment on a computer. CD-adapco will be featured in this episode to demonstrate how engineering simulation plays a vital role in the aerospace and defense industry. In an environment where economic ...

New York's Center for Human Reproduction (CHR) is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has approved a patent application for infertility treatment, serial number 8,067,400, titled "Androgen Treatments in Females." The claims of this allowed application - the second received based on CHR's research of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in women with infertility - are directed to methods of decreasing aneuploidy rates (chromosomal abnormalities) in human embryos, decreasing time to pregnancy and increasing pregnancy rates by administering ...

Derek Hunderman, vice president and managing partner of Colliers International | West Michigan, has been named to the national Manager Steering Committee for Colliers International. Hunderman will serve a one-year term on the 11-member committee, which is designed to provide recommendations to the national level executive leadership on the day-to-day management of Colliers International, the third largest commercial real estate services company in the world. The new committee is also charged with fostering the development and implementation of best practices for the ...

David R. Rhode, managing partner of Vaco Raleigh (http://www.vaco.com), an executive placement and consulting firm, has announced the firm's new Triangle area headquarters at 2501 Blue Ridge Road, Suite 400, positioning the company for continuing future growth in 2012 and beyond. The company has recently added several new professional staff including Suzan Sprouse as business development director, Brent Coles as executive recruiter, Christiaan Heijmen as managing director of the executive search division and Joe Medina as senior financial recruiter. Vaco Raleigh is a member ...

NetGain SEO is offering 10% off all new orders placed from Thursday, December 15th to Thursday, December 30th, 2011. The promotion is valid on all of the company's services, must be a new estimate and some conditions apply. NetGain SEO offers services on top of current marketing and online trends such as advanced web development, QR code development and search engine optimization. With the current market of mobile smart phones, the web market has made a giant shift towards focusing on a more mobile audience. This holiday promotion can help you break into the mobile market ...

EMCO Software today announced it will launch a new version of its application, EMCO Network Software Scanner, which works with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 to offer customers enhanced security, as well as innovative user interface features and reliability improvements. EMCO Network Software Scanner is designed to help network administrators and IT professionals to audit software installed on Windows computers in their organizations. It allows extracting software inventory information from all remote PCs connected to a local network into a centralized software ...

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, December 20, 2011—An essential question confronting neuroscientists and computer vision researchers alike is how objects can beidentified by simply "looking" at an image. Introspectively, we know that the human brain solves this problem very well. We only have to look at something to know what it is. But teaching a computer to "know" what it's looking at is far harder. In research published this fall in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Computational Biology journal, a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chatham University, and Emory ...

Dr. Myra Jones, national dean of the Harrison College School of Veterinary Technology (http://www.harrison.edu), has announced that the Veterinary Assisting program has received accreditation through the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA). The mission of NAVTA is to represent and promote the profession of veterinary technology. Harrison College's Veterinary Assisting program is designed to prepare students to enter into a career as a veterinary assistant, a part of the veterinary team whose duties include basic animal husbandry, animal ...

New York -- As parents do their final holiday shopping, comic books, and their related superhero-themed toys and children's gear, continue to be popular. From Batman rain boots and Legos, to paperback books about Wonder Woman, many stores are filled with superhero-inspired toys. New research shows that a reboot this year of DC Comics super heroes, however, put a little something extra into the characters – a mega dose of sexual objectification. In an effort to reverse slumping sales figures and attract the attention of a new generation of readers to their brands, DC Comics ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – New research suggests that, in people who don't currently have memory problems, those with smaller regions of the brain's cortex may be more likely to develop symptoms consistent with very early Alzheimer's disease. The study is published in the December 21, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "The ability to identify people who are not showing memory problems and other symptoms but may be at a higher risk for cognitive decline is a very important step toward developing new ways for doctors to ...

Held at Manchester Central from 6th to 8th January 2012. Visitors can come and talk to the Fred. Olsen experts, who will be on hand to advise them about the choice of cruises available, and will help them select the perfect cruise holiday for their tastes and budget. Knowledgeable Fred. Olsen staff will be promoting the cruise lines' extensive programme of worldwide cruises, from a choice of convenient regional UK ports. Fred. Olsen will be showcasing some great offers, through the 'Captains' Collection'. This new brochure, of 73 specially-selected ex-UK cruises, offers ...

The hippocampus is an important brain structure for recollection memory, the type of memory we use for detailed reliving of past events. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the December 22 issue of the journal Neuron reveals characteristics of the human hippocampus that allow scientists to use anatomical brain scans to form predictions about an individual's recollection ability. The new research helps to explain why this relationship has been hard to find in the past and provides evidence for a possible underlying mechanism. The hippocampus, a deep brain structure ...

People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how it interferes with reading comprehension has not been fully explained. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the December 22 issue of the journal Neuron finds that a specific abnormality in the processing of auditory signals accounts for the main symptoms of dyslexia. "It is widely agreed that for a majority of dyslexic ...

New York Education Department Official Accused of Stealing Millions A former consultant to the New York Department of Education stole more than $3 million from the state department over a six-year period, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The stiff penalties that the former consultant faces show just how important it is for those accused of fraud to seek out experienced legal counsel. The New York Times wrote that the consultant allegedly stole $3.6 million from the education department in part to pay for the costs of new cars and real estate deals. The ...

High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDC-ASCT), for previously untreated patients with advanced follicular lymphoma (FL) does not improve overall survival compared with conventional-dose chemotherapy alone, according to an online study published December 21 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Follicular lymphoma is the most common sub-type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in North America, characterized by a long natural history, with multiple remissions and relapses following treatment. A number of chemotherapy regimens have been combined ...

Scientists at the BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and the University of British Columbia are excited over a discovery made while studying rare tumour types. Dr. David Huntsman, genetic pathologist and director of the Ovarian Cancer Program of BC at the BC Cancer Agency and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and Dr. Gregg Morin, a lead scientist from the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at the BC Cancer Agency, led a team who found mutations in rare, seemingly unrelated cancers were all linked to the same gene, known as DICER. The ...

Connecticut Gets Smart on Crime With Inmate Early Release Law As Connecticut and other states grapple with tight budgets, many have made attempts to lower recidivism, or the rate at which released prisoners are reincarcerated for new crimes. A national study found that more than 40 percent of people released from prison end up back behind bars. However, a new law in Connecticut may help to rehabilitate inmates and prevent or reduce recidivism. The state's new "risk reduction" credit program allows inmates in Connecticut to earn credits toward an earlier ...

A fundamental problem that has puzzled generations of scientists has finally been solved after more than 70 years. An international team of scientists has discovered a subtle electronic effect in magnetite – the most magnetic of all naturally occurring minerals – causes a dramatic change to how this material conducts electricity at very low temperatures. The discovery gives new insight into the mineral in which mankind discovered magnetism, and it may enable magnetite and similar materials to be exploited in new ways. The research, published in Nature, was led ...

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, reports that abnormal sequences of DNA known as rare copy number variants, or CNVs, appear to play a significant role in the risk for early onset bipolar disorder. The findings will be published in the Dec. 22 issue of the journal Neuron. CNVs are genomic alterations in which there are too few or too many copies of sections of DNA. Researchers have known that spontaneously occurring (de novo) CNVs – genetic mutations not inherited from parents – significantly ...

Industrial Leaders, an online network established in 2003 for the manufacturing community, announced today the launch of its latest marketing campaign to help companies in Nevada locate a suitable job shop approved by AMSN at http://www.MFGpartners.net The company said it will combine a number of promotional strategies to help bring work to local machine shops and custom manufacturers throughout the Silver State by connecting local businesses and organizations with the most suitable vendors presented on the IndustrialLeaders.com website. According to Industrial Leaders, ...

In perhaps the most comprehensive survey of the inner workings of HIV, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has mapped every apparent physical interaction the virus makes with components of the human cells it infects—work that may reveal new ways to design future HIV/AIDS drugs. Explored this week in back-to-back papers in the journal Nature, the survey reveals a pathogenic landscape in which HIV's handful of proteins makes hundreds of physical connections with human proteins and other components inside ...