Le Meridien Amman has hosted "Play For UNICEF" Football Tournament from May 9th - May 18th between 8 five star hotels in Amman as part of Starwood's Road to Awareness fundraising initiative, which aims to raise US$250,000 for UNICEF's education programmes in Pakistan and Romania where millions of children are missing out on their right to go to school. Nearly a year after the floods that hit Pakistan and destroyed over 10,000 schools, millions of children are still unable to attend primary school, while poverty and discrimination in Romania means that up to ...

The South Australia's Railways and the World War Years Exhibition will be on display at the National Railway Museum in Adelaide until the end of the month. Visitors will be able to see how the region's tracks were used during the global conflict to allow men and women to support the troops. In a statement, a representative from the museum said: "The exhibition showcases photographs and artefacts from the collection and a self-guided tour takes you around the locomotives and carriages associated with the wars." While the display is on show until May 31st, ...

Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) is set to host a performance of The Wanderer by the Seraphim Trio later this month. The group will take the stage on Friday May 27th and play pieces by Franz Schubert and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Highly-acclaimed on the chamber music circuit, the Seraphim Trio have been together since 1994. Pianist Anna Goldsworthy, violinist Helen Ayres and cellist Timothy Nankervis make up the group, which has performed a number of international tours and regularly makes appearances at Australian music festivals. In a statement, the organisers ...

Of all the precious metals, gold is arguably the most popular, with a long history of being a reliable resource in any time of crisis. For centuries many currencies were backed by gold. There have been rumors recently that the US government may sell off some of its gold supplies to reduce its debt. These rumors have spawned a number of articles pointing out the extreme inadvisability of such a move. Warren Bevan, in his 'Precious Metal Stock Review Newsletter 'of May 18, points out that - even if the US owns all the gold it claims to - selling it would only cover the ...

Motown and Philadelphia on Tour will be stopping off at the Hall for Cornwall in June for a spectacular show full of hits. Roy G Hemmings leads the action and will no doubt have much of the audience out of their seats and dancing at several points of the night. Music by The Temptations, The Supremes and The Four Tops will give people the chance to appreciate songs they may not have heard in decades. In a statement, the organisers said: "The hits and memories just keep on coming as multi-award winning Roy G Hemmings and his 15 performers stage a full evening ...

Music fans can step back in time with the Rock Around the 60s show at Gorleston Pavilion Theatre in Norfolk next month. The concert takes place on Friday June 3rd and will feature a set by The New Honeycombs, who will play a varied programme of tracks from the decade, including a selection of songs by the band they are named after. In a statement, the venue explained: "The New Honeycombs toured the UK with one of the original founder members of The Honeycombs and are now on tour in their own right, recreating the sounds of the 60s and reflecting The Honeycombs' ...

Landscape of Myths and Legends opened in Prague's DOX this week and will be on show until June 30th 2011. The collection of photography explores the natural wonders of Tibet through artist Jaroslav Poncar's lens. He has captured how varied and beautiful the country's landscapes are, with the sense of the spiritual and supernatural never far away. According to the venue, one of the focus points of Poncar's study was the original Tibetan religion of Bon, which existed in the nation before the arrival of Buddhism. In a statement, the organisers said: "Jaroslav ...

People taking part in the B2Run Dusseldorf 2011 event will be entering into the final straight of their training programmes, as the challenge takes place on July 7th. It is part of a wider B2Run series of races organised in a number of German cities, including Dortmund, Hanover, Hamburg and Munich, with the aim being to reach the grand final in Berlin in September. Even if participants do not qualify for the finals, there will be certificates and medals handed out and some of the proceeds go to charity. Last year, more than 2,000 people took part in the Dusseldorf ...

The Texas real estate school of Spencer Training (also known as Spencer School of Real Estate) is providing a new class on short sales and foreclosures. It addresses all the topics that real estate agents need in order to work with a bank on a short sale transaction. The class is a 15 hour MCE Certified Foreclosure Course and participants get a CFS designation. The course is a short, but thorough education about real estate's newest trend: the short sale and foreclosure. "With today's economy, all Texas real estate agent schools must educate their students about ...

The Fraser's Hill International Bird Race is set to take place in Pahang on Saturday June 25th and Sunday June 26th. People familiar with the Malaysian mountain resort may be aware of its reputation as a birdwatcher's paradise, with roughly 250 wild species living in the vicinity. The annual bird race, which is now in its 24th year, gives enthusiasts a chance to compete against each other by spotting and correctly identifying as many birds as they can. People entering the competition this year will be placed into one of three categories: advanced, novice or local. The ...

The third and final session of the Namsang Million Person Walking Festival will take place in Seoul next month. With the first two occasions held in April and May, the concluding chapter of this incredible event is scheduled for June 11th 2011. It sees thousands of people at a time walking a 7.5 km route from Namsang Fountain Square. The festival is free to take part in, but people must sign up online. The National Theatre of Korea and Seoul City Hall are just two of the sights people can see on the route. If attendees are lucky, they may catch sight of the ...

There is not long to go until runners take their places on the Pattaya Marathon starting line, with the race scheduled for July 17th 2011. Starting and finishing at Pattaya Beach Road, the challenge offers participants a beautifully scenic route along the coast. In order to beat the daytime heat the event normally begins at about 04:30 local time, giving runners a chance to complete a significant amount of the course before the sun is high in the sky. However, such is the excitement in the city regarding the marathon, there is normally a huge number of people lining ...

London wedding photographers Matt Foden Photography, based in Croydon, UK, have introduced a new album range to their line up. The album, manufactured by Yorkshire-based suppliers Folio Albums, are sourced from local suppliers and use recycled fine art papers and sumptuous vintage leather covers. The introduction of this new album range have enabled Matt Foden Photography to meet an increasing demand from customers for innovative, luxury albums with a difference. Commenting on this new range owner Matt Foden said, "Clients in the wedding industry are becoming increasingly ...

We currently have an oral surgeon in A Northern Chicago Suburb and one in New York to do collections but are beginning negotiations with a surgical group that is in 30 cities across the U.S. Stem Cells from Developing Tooth Buds can be the Answer to a Prayer or a Fountain of Youth. Stem Cells from Tooth Buds are an Ethical Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells for Therapy. New Heart Foundation founder Dr Wayne Franco believes that stem cells from developing tooth buds may be the key to treating autism, brain trauma, hypoxic brain injuries and stroke. These priceless cells ...

The Wildflower Group Marketing program has contributed significantly to the growth of veteran Realtor and creator Joan Rogliano's real estate practice. Rogliano is now introducing this unique system to agents nationally. Currently expanding in the Columbus, Ohio and Washington, DC markets, Wildflower Group seeks an exclusive number of agents who are interested in business growth and making a difference within their community. The Wildflower Group Marketing Kit is designed to grow your business, while contributing to your community in assisting women and families ...

Al Capone famously said "Vote early and vote often." Violations of electoral law aside, this saying perfectly applies to data backups. Frequent and full data backups are extremely crucial now more than ever because the Internet has exploded the security risks that threaten computer users' data. From spam mail containing HTML files that refresh to virus and/or Trojan loading websites to hijacked websites that load all sorts of malicious software to infected torrent files, there are almost an infinite number of ways your data can be corrupted or your computer's ...

VIDEO: Weihua Guan and Mark Reed confine a single polystyrene bead to an accuracy of just 10 nanometers, or about 1/10,000th the width of a human hair. Click here for more information. New Haven, Conn.—Sequencing DNA base pairs – the individual molecules that make up DNA – is key for medical researchers working toward personalized medicine. Being able to isolate, study and sequence these DNA molecules would allow scientists to tailor diagnostic testing, therapies and ...

Many people tout the beneficial effects of probiotics in preventing and/or treating several intestinal diseases, including ulcerative colitis. Although there have been few, if any, good clinical studies evaluating the clinical efficacy of probiotics, preclinical data suggest that probiotics and approaches utilizing probiotic-derived products could be effective therapies for acute and chronic gastrointestinal disorders. In this context, a team of researchers, led by Fang Yan, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, have now identified a new probiotic bacteria–derived ...

EDITOR'S PICK: Comfort food: probiotic-derived product protects in model of intestinal inflammation Many people tout the beneficial effects of probiotics in preventing and/or treating several intestinal diseases, including ulcerative colitis. Although there have been few, if any, good clinical studies evaluating the clinical efficacy of probiotics, preclinical data suggest that probiotics and approaches utilizing probiotic-derived products could be effective therapies for acute and chronic gastrointestinal disorders. In this context, a team of researchers, led by Fang ...

Men who visit art galleries, museums, and the theatre regularly tend to enjoy better health and are more satisfied with life, reveals a study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The study found that both men and women who play musical instruments, paint or visit the theatre or museums felt in better health, enjoyed life more, and were less likely to be anxious or depressed then people who do not participate in cultural activities. However, the effect was most pronounced in men who were interested in watching and looking at culture ...

The number of children taken to emergency care departments with common medical problems has risen sharply over the past decade, reveals a study published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. During the past 10 years, the way that the NHS provides care at night and at weekends for common medical problems has changed. The family doctor is no longer responsible for providing that care and advice to worried parents, with large private companies now generally contracted to provide this instead. Researchers looked at the medical records of children under the age of 15 ...

More than four fifths of children who turn up at emergency departments with head injuries in the UK are seen in hospitals which would have to transfer them if the injury was serious, reveals a study published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. Around 210,000 children attend hospital every year with a head injury and around 34,500 are admitted. A few children with serious head injuries will require emergency surgery and intensive care, and delays to the provision of this can prove fatal or result in severe disability. The authors surveyed 245 hospitals in England, ...

Coronary computed tomographic (CT) angiography, which can detect plaque buildup in heart vessels, is sometimes used as a screening tool to assess the risk for a heart attack. However, the usefulness of the test on low-risk patients who do not have coronary symptoms, such as chest pain, has been unclear. In the first large population study to assess the impact of the test on physicians and patients, Johns Hopkins cardiologists found that having CT angiography leads to more prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medications and aspirin, as well as more stress tests, nuclear ...

OAKLAND, Calif., May 23, 2011 – Compared with women whose weight remained stable, body mass index gains between the first and second pregnancy were associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in the second pregnancy. But losing weight between the first and second pregnancies appeared to reduce GDM risk in a second pregnancy, particularly for women who were overweight or obese to begin with, according to a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study appearing online in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. GDM is associated with an increased risk ...

(Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School have found targeting patient navigation to black and non-English speaking patients may be one approach to reducing disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) screenings. These findings appear in the May 23 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. and is preventable through screening. Nevertheless, about 40 percent of eligible adults in the U.S. and more foreign born U.S. residents ...