Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu welcomes one of the most famous voices in world opera later this summer, as Placido Domingo is set to star in a production of Georg Friedrich Handel's Tamerlano. The Spanish-Mexican was one of the celebrated Three Tenors alongside Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras and has been performing professionally for more than 50 years. He will be joined on stage by Bejun Mehta, Max Emanuel Cencic and Sarah Fox among others for the Barcelona shows, which will take place on July 6th and 9th. In a statement, the venue said: "The plot ...

A new exhibition devoted to the photography of Claude Cahun has opened in Paris and will be on display until September 25th 2011. The French artist was born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, but intentionally adopted a sexually ambiguous pseudonym when she began to paint and take pictures. This theme of sexual and gender ambiguity runs throughout her work, as people who attend this new show at Jeu de Paume will see. She would take photographs of herself dressed as a man and a woman, exploring and challenging the preconceptions society holds regarding the sexes. The ...

A heightened interest in laser hair removal in Southern California has been reported by Dr. Richard Foxx, medical director and founder of The Medical and Skin Spa (www.medicalandskinspa.com) in Indian Wells. According to Dr. Foxx, warmer weather tends to result in increased popularity for hair removal procedures. "People want to feel confident and comfortable about their appearance during the summer, because they are wearing more revealing clothes such as swimsuits or shorts," Dr. Foxx says. "That's why the interest in cosmetic treatments like laser hair ...

Wired Communications has added an electronics show and Ham Radio swap meet events calendar to their website. This calendar includes the dates of shows such as ACP and TRW as well as the Ham-Com Ham Radio Convention, ARCA/Williams Hamfest and Scout's Electronicfest. The events are color coded to easily distinguish between the electronics show and Ham Radio swap meet events calendar, Ham radio shows, swap meets, and other types of events[/url]. Information about the show such as show times, address, and pictures can be found by clicking on the show date. These shows ...

We are proud to present the Shiloh Amphitheater's 21st Independence Day Fireworks Spectacular! The show is created and developed by a team, led by producer Rick Holbrook, based out of Los Angeles, California. Production is then moved to Iowa on a 48-foot trailer a week and a half before the performance date. Here the audio system is assembled, sets are constructed, and final lighting is set. The production team works with The Richmond Shooters, certified pyrotechnicians from the local community. The choreographed fireworks show is meticulously programmed and cued with each ...

Viruses are the most abundant parasites on Earth. Well known viruses, such as the flu virus, attack human hosts, while viruses such as the tobacco mosaic virus infect plant hosts. More common, but less understood, are cases of viruses infecting bacteria known as bacteriophages, or phages. In part, this is due to the difficulty of culturing bacteria and viruses that have been cut off from their usual biological surroundings in a process called in vitro. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, were the ...

After nearly a decade of serving West Michigan's homeowners, Five Star Real Estate agent Sue Prins has expanded her network with a comprehensive new website and social media presence. Ms. Prins' new website (www.sueprins.com) not only offers a fresh, updated look, but also resources geared to help home buyers and sellers make more informed decisions. Updated property listings, MLS West Michigan homes for sale and other real estate resources are made available through Sue Prins' website, Facebook and Twitter accounts. While Ms. Prins recognizes that carving out a competitive ...

The sun and the solar system's rocky inner planets, including the Earth, may have formed differently than previously thought, according to UCLA scientists and colleagues analyzing samples returned by NASA's Genesis mission. The data from Genesis, which collected material from the solar wind blowing from the sun, reveal differences between the sun and planets with regard to oxygen and nitrogen, two of the most abundant elements in our solar system, the researchers report in two studies in the June 24 issue of the journal Science. And although the differences are slight, ...

Researchers can now see objects more precisely and faster at the nanoscale due to utilising the full colour spectrum of synchrotron light, opening the way for faster 3D nanoimaging. This new methodology will provide for enhanced nanoimaging for studying bio samples for medical research, improved drug development and advanced materials for engineering. Using the Advanced Photon Source, a synchrotron facility in Chicago, USA, researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science (CXS), headquartered at the University of Melbourne, Australia, revealed ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have linked a master molecule of the immune system, gamma-interferon, to the pathology of asthma, in a study of mice. This somewhat surprising finding — the key immune molecule has often been assumed to steer the immune system in a different direction from the cluster of allergic disorders to which asthma belongs — could lead to new treatments for the disease. Gamma interferon's role in asthma has been fuzzy. High levels of this substance in children's blood seem to be protective against the development ...

Tom Bracken, the new President and CEO of the NJ State Chamber of Commerce, will keynote a breakfast seminar, "Five Common Mistakes That Could Cost You Millions!" that will be held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in West Orange, New Jersey, on Tuesday, July 19th from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The seminar is designed to help owners, CFOs, CEOs and other key executives keep control of their business assets and make more money. Among the issues to be addressed are mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes and key operating agreements from the legal, accounting and insurance ...

VIDEO: This shows the mechanism of the MAV and how it moves from three different views. Click here for more information. Scientists have designed a micro aircraft that will be able to flap, glide and hover like a bird. Researchers from the Biomimetics-Innovation-Centre in Germany have been inspired by birds to produce a new versatile design of Micro air vehicle (MAV) that combines flapping wings, which allow it to fly at slow speeds and hover, with the ability to glide, ...

Daily satellites with a chance to ultimately win a $12,500 WPT Paris prize package begin Monday at Intertops Poker. There's also $10,000 up for grabs in the popular online poker room's weekly FPP points race which continues through July. It's going to be a very busy summer. With qualifiers throughout the day, every day, Intertops Poker players can satellite their way to a WPT Paris Super Satellite Final for as little as $0.20, or buy-in directly. Super Satellite Finals will be held on Sunday, July 31st and Sunday, August 28th. Tournament details: http://poker.intertops.com/en/promotions/#item_1486 Each ...

Scientists have shown for the first time that the loudest animal on earth, relative to its body size, is the tiny water boatman, Micronecta scholtzi. At 99.2 decibels, this represents the equivalent of listening to an orchestra play loudly while sitting in the front row. The frequency of the sound (around 10 kHz) is within human hearing range and Dr. James Windmill of the University of Strathclyde, explains one clue as to how loud the animals are: "Remarkably, even though 99% of sound is lost when transferring from water to air, the song is so loud that a person walking ...

Young house spiders weave webs with perfect angles and regular patterns, but as they reach old age their webs deteriorate, showing gaping holes and erratic weaving. By using spiders as a simple model this research may provide insight into how age affects behaviour in other organisms, including humans. The reason web building skills are lost as spiders grow older may be due to degeneration of the central nervous system. PhD researcher, Mylène Anotaux, from Nancy University in France, says "Our next steps will be to understand whether age-induced changes in the central ...

The Employee Benefits offering from Love2reward includes: Flexebens Flexebens is a unique gift card platform which gives staff 7% discount every time they shop. The Flexebens card can be used in 23 leading retailers including River Island, Debenhams, New Look, Comet, Boots, Superdrug and Iceland, with new retailers joining the programme every month. Employees can save money onto their Flexebens card in one of two ways: Salary Exchange - this salary deduction scheme allows employees to choose how much money they wish to be taken from their salary each month. Each ...

Poor maternal diet before conception can result in offspring with reduced birth weights and increased risk of developing type II diabetes and obesity. This work, which is being presented at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Glasgow on Saturday the 2nd of July, used an animal model to illustrate the importance of maternal diet even before pregnancy begins. During the study mice that were fed a low protein diet for ten weeks before conception (but had a normal diet during pregnancy) gave birth to offspring that had lower birth weights, showed catch-up ...

A team of researchers — led by Pierre Gressens, at Inserm U676, Paris, France, and Vincent Lelièvre, at CNRS UPR-3212, Strasbourg, France — has identified a signaling pathway key for normal brain development in the mouse. Of paramount importance, the data generated suggest that environmental factors, including maternal ones, can influence the final size of the brain. Individuals with microcephaly primary hereditary (MCPH) are born with a very small head and a small brain. They suffer mild developmental delay, hyperkinesia (excessive restlessness), and mild to severe cognitive ...

Parkinson disease (PD) affects 1-2% of the population over the age of 65 years. It results from loss or loss of function of nerve cells in the brain that coordinate movement. As a result, the hallmark symptoms of PD are trembling in hands, arms, legs, jaw, and face; stiffness of the limbs and trunk; slowness of movement; and impaired balance and coordination. There is no cure for PD, but symptoms can be alleviated with a variety of drugs. A team of researchers, led by Chung-Chin Kuo, at National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan, has now shown that pharmacological ...

Novis Shoes can provide shoe lifts custom designed for individual customers who experience leg length discrepancy problems. Our orthopedic footwear company specializes in all kinds of shoe modifications - from simple repairs to complete custom-made footwear - and can fill specific prescriptions quickly and easily. Our skilled Certified Pedorthist can apply shoe lifts for just about any shoe - for heights of 1/4 of an inch to six inches. Leg length discrepancy can be caused by a number of congenital and acquired conditions, including hip surgery, scoliosis, hip disease, ...

EDITOR'S PICK: A VIP for normal brain development A team of researchers — led by Pierre Gressens, at Inserm U676, Paris, France, and Vincent Lelièvre, at CNRS UPR-3212, Strasbourg, France — has identified a signaling pathway key for normal brain development in the mouse. Of paramount importance, the data generated suggest that environmental factors, including maternal ones, can influence the final size of the brain. Individuals with microcephaly primary hereditary (MCPH) are born with a very small head and a small brain. They suffer mild developmental delay, hyperkinesia ...

Infection with the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori provides reliable protection against allergy-induced asthma, immunologists from the University of Zurich have demonstrated in an animal model together with allergy specialists from the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Their results published in the prestigious Journal of Clinical Investigation confirm the hypothesis recently put forward that the dramatic increase in allergic diseases in industrial societies is linked to the rapid disappearance of specific micro-organisms that populate ...

On the heels of the runaway success of the hit song "Friday," Ark Music Factory has partnered with ABC-TV's Good Morning America to find and develop America's next viral music star. And Tuesday morning, June 28, GMA will reveal her: Lexi St. George. Good Morning America started a series of stories on the talent search and development June 27; it will host the world premiere of Lexi's debut music video, "Dancing to the Rhythm," on Thursday, June 30 (check local listings for stations and air times). The video will also be featured on Ark Music Factory's ...

KINGSTON, R.I. – July 1, 2011 – Tiny marine organisms called zooplankton can use specialized adaptations that allow them to hide from predators in areas of the ocean where oxygen levels are so low that almost nothing can survive, but they may run into trouble as these areas expand due to climate change. "Oxygen minimum zones are very difficult places to survive," said University of Rhode Island doctoral student Leanne Elder. "But we have discovered that these tiny animals have adapted in two specialized ways. First, they suppress their metabolism, which is very much ...

Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by University of California, Berkeley, electrical engineers. Today's silicon-based microprocessor chips rely on electric currents, or moving electrons, that generate a lot of waste heat. But microprocessors employing nanometer-sized bar magnets – like tiny refrigerator magnets – for memory, logic and switching operations theoretically would require no moving electrons. Such chips would dissipate only 18 millielectron ...