Le Meridien Amman, a subsidiary of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, has recently announced the addition of a new chef to its culinary team, Chinese Chef Di Junkai whose role is to oversee culinary operations at its infamous fine dining China Town restaurant. Junkai brings with him 24 years of culinary experience in many 5-star and luxury hotels from around the world. He took his first steps in the culinary art industry in his home country; China and continued his gastronomic creations in Beijing, Singapore, the Gulf countries and currently in Amman. The various culinary ...

Golden Systems Middle East (GSME), a leading distributor of IT products in the Middle East, announced that the University of Wollongong team has won the first place at the Press Play 'Split Second' PC Assembling Competition held at the Living Rooms Video Games Cafe in Dubai Festival City. American University of Sharjah (AUS), BITS Pilani Dubai and Middlesex University were the other participating teams at the first PC Assembling competition in the Middle East, which organized by The Republic (TR), a club for university students and the youth in the UAE. Golden Systems Middle ...

Adestra has chosen Online Marketing Show 2011 (29-30th June, London Olympia) to unveil the new version of its email marketing platform, MessageFocus. Key new features include: • An improved API for automating processes, integrating with existing systems, and managing your account remotely. • Additional security features to reduce risk at client-side. • Improved email display testing to ensure your emails arrive looking as intended. • Split-testing to improve metrics and ROI. • Automated email content generation to save time and improve click-through rate by including ...

Pan Gulf Products has launched a new feature to help customers make right decisions about buying equipment for their industrial facility. This recently launched feature has been designed to give customers in-depth information about the product they want to buy from Pan Gulf Products The key attributes of this new service is: cost and device/equipment feature comparison between multiple products and proactive product proposal in case the original product requested by the customer is not available. Nabeel Chaudhary, Business leader of Pan Gulf Products, said, "The ...

Evolven Software, supplier of the breakthrough change and configuration analytics solution for the modern data center and cloud, announced today survey results showing that a majority of IT professionals feel that today's virtualization approaches adds configuration management challenges and impacts the smooth operations of modern data centers. The global survey was carried out by Evolven during a recent event conducted with Forrester Research, and the findings underscore the concerns of IT professionals and illustrates the growing need for addressing IT configuration ...

In the pure sense, molecular gastronomy is the scientific study of the chemical and physical processes that accompany cooking. It is also the use of studied processes in many professional kitchens and labs. Molecular gastronomy seeks to investigate and explain the chemical reasons behind the transformation of ingredients. Today, this term has also, rightly or wrongly, come to describe a style of cooking that creative and forward-thinking chefs have developed using advances in science, technology, and even psychology. It describes the social, artistic and technical components ...

Vogue Lighting of Skokie, which has proudly served Skokie and the Chicagoland Area for more than 30 years has unveiled a new website. Vogue's online presence will allow customers to do the same browsing through an unmatched selection of lighting and decorative products for the home, as well as the same access to professional service that you would find in the store. Remodeling houses on a budget is more important than ever in these tough economic times, but the superior selection and expert advice of Vogue Lighting's staff don't translate to higher prices, they just ...

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italy.topseos.com, an independent authority on search vendors has named the Best Internet Marketing Services in Italy for the month of June 2011. Companies are already becoming serious about boosting the quality of traffic being directed to their site and have established an organic optimization cam-paign in place. Search engines are such an integral part of how visitors and potential clients find information on the internet, thus it becomes essential that websites are aligned with what the search engine is looking for. All the Search Engine Marketing services next to hundreds ...

BROWN-FORMAN, a diversified producer of fine quality wine and spirits, unveiled today the new bottle design for its Finlandia Vodka brand. Webb Blevins, global design director for Brown-Forman led the design vision for Finlandia and joined with HIRST PACIFIC LTD to redesign the structural packaging of Finlandia Vodka. "Great brands have great stories. Finlandia is one of these brands with such a story," says Kenneth Hirst, President of Hirst Pacific Ltd. The design is all about discovery and continues the story behind the historic Vodka of Finland. The vodka ...

Any South Dakota homeowner affected by flooding along the Missouri River may be eligible to receive up to $5,000 in relocation assistance from the Vermillion Area Chamber and Economic Development Company (VCDC). As property damage continues to escalate along the Missouri River, the VCDC is offering to help homeowners rebuild in or relocate to Clay County, regardless of the location of their flooded home. "The flooding has just begun to damage and destroy property," says Steve Howe, executive director of the VCDC. "As homeowners look at starting over in ...

The partnership between PreGel and POLI.Design, the Consortium of Politecnico di Milano, goes on and strengthens itself. After participating as an Academic Sponsor of "Temporary Exhibition Space & Design", the italian gelato company has chosen to lend its support to another POLI.Design educational project: the fourth edition of the course of high standard training in "Food Experience Design - Design for the innovation of pizza shops and spaces". Thirty-six professionals, among architects and designers, was selected to attend this course of post-graduate ...

Some of the biggest acts of the 60s and 70s will be honoured in Bournemouth next month when The Magic of Soul heads to the south coast town. Described by the organisers as the feel-good show of the year, the concert will take in the music of star musicians such as Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind and Fire, Marvin Gaye, and Michael Jackson. An extensive track listing has been picked out, meaning audiences can look forward to hearing classic hits including Respect, Midnight Hour, Knock on Wood and many more. As well as providing a treat for the ears, the show promises ...

This year's AltaRoma event will bring high fashion and experimental art to Rome from July 8th to 11th. Attendees can expect to see a range of designers exhibiting their creations, from emerging talents up to established brands. Held twice a year at the Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito in Saxia, the show is always a fascinating spectacle, both for the innovative clothes on display and the selection of other intriguing events that take place around the fashion centre. One of the highlights of AltaRoma is Who is on Next?, which is a launch pad for young designers ...

Some of the biggest names in alternative music will feature at Milan's Gods of Metal concert this year, including Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Cradle of Filth and Europe. The line-up will be a dream come true for many veteran rockers and thousands of fans look set to descend on the city's FieraMilano venue on June 22nd. It will be the 15th year that Gods of Metal has taken place and the honour of topping the bill has gone to Birmingham band Judas Priest, who have been performing for more than 40 years. Led by Rob Halford, the group have sold more than 50 million albums ...

Picture a menacing drill sergeant, a gory slaughterhouse, a devastating scene of a natural disaster. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that viewing such emotion-laden images immediately after taking a test actually enhances people's retention of the tested material. The data the researchers gathered in recent studies are the first to show that negative arousal following successful retrieval of information enhances later recall of that information. The finding is counterintuitive. One would think that viewing a negative scene would tend to ...

Fathers stumbling through child-rearing are a familiar sitcom theme. But a growing body of research at the University of California, Berkeley, is challenging the perception that dads are goofy, uncaring or incompetent caregivers. On the contrary, preliminary findings suggest their parenting skills are crucial to their kids' social and academic success, and that teamwork in parenting is the ideal. "There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day. But there's no Co-Parents Day," which should be celebrated, too, said Philip Cowan, a UC Berkeley psychologist and one of ...

Fairbanks, Alaska—Nearly one year ago, a repurposed NASA spacecraft flew by the comet Hartley 2. As a result, a multitude of high-resolution images were gathered over 50 days that allow scientists to understand the nature of the comet's surface and it's hidden interior. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Don Hampton was a key member of the mission to Hartley 2; he's an optics expert that helped create the highly sensitive telescope, camera and infrared spectrometer that flew on the spacecraft. Hampton, the optical science manager at Poker Flat Research Range, is ...

Outcomes of bypass surgery to repair blocked arteries in the legs tend to be better in the roughly one-in-five people who have inherited a specific genetic variation from both parents, according to a study presented at the late-breaking clinical trials session of the Vascular Annual Meeting in Chicago on June 18, 2011. For the estimated 8 million people in the United States with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and for their physicians, the new findings may prove useful in weighing treatment options – surgery versus medication alone, for example. More than 100,000 bypasses, ...

Barrow's annual Zircus Plus circus festival will return next month, featuring a double-header of top acts from the UK and France. On Friday July 15th and Saturday July 16th, Gallic ensemble DeFracto and England's own PanGottic will take the stage at the Cumbrian town's Forum venue. DeFracto's new production, Circuits Fermes - which translates as Closed Circuits - features two men, numerous white juggling balls and a sizeable wooden board. All these factors come together to create one entertaining performance, which manages to highlight the skill of the participants ...

There have been instances in Earth history when average temperatures have changed rapidly, as much as 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) over a few decades, and some have speculated the same could happen again as the atmosphere becomes overloaded with carbon dioxide. New research lends support to evidence from numerous recent studies that suggest abrupt climate change appears to be the result of alterations in ocean circulation uniquely associated with ice ages. "There might be other mechanisms by which greenhouse gases may cause an abrupt climate change, ...

Greengrade announces the direct integration with USGBC's LEED Online for submitting LEED certification applications. Greengrade is a collaborative online management software tool that allows LEED project teams to communicate, track and manage LEED project information from planning to submission. The new integration between LEED Online and Greengrade significantly increases efficiency in LEED project management by eliminating the need to manage documents and data in multiple platforms and/or software. "We are thrilled that USGBC has taken the steps to enable direct ...

Researchers at Delft University of Technology and the University of Basel have established a biomimetic nanopore that provides a unique test and measurement platform for the way that proteins move into a cell's nucleus. In the journal Nature Nanotechnology (June 19 - online), they report an artificial nanopore that is functionalized with key proteins which mimicks the natural nuclear pore. Upon testing the transport of individual proteins through the biomimetic pore, they found that most proteins cannot move through, but some specific ones can indeed pass. This is the hallmark ...

The age at which bodychecking is introduced in youth ice hockey does not appear to affect overall risk of injury and concussion, although introducing it at the Pee Wee level (ages 11-12) reduces the risk of injury resulting in more than seven days loss from playing time for Bantam ice hockey players (ages 13-14), found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj101540.pdf. The age to introduce bodychecking in youth hockey leagues is controversial. To determine whether there is a difference in risk of ...

To protect children from lifelong injuries in sports, we need a public health approach similar to that mounted against smoking and drunk driving, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj110634.pdf. The annual rate of catastrophic injury in sports or recreational activities is 6.9 per 100 000 participants, and many of the injured are children and youth under age 21. Nearly 500 Ontarians alone are hospitalized each year from hockey injuries and concussions in particular can have long-term ...